Dreweatts 1759 | Modern Design & Decorative Art to include The Collection of Silka Rittson-Thomas

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Modern Design & Decorative Art to include The Collection of Silka Rittson-Thomas

Dreweatts

Donnington Priory

Newbury, Berkshire

RG14 2JE

United Kingdom

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λ ADRIANA LARA (MEXICAN, B.1978), 'S.S.O.R (2) SYMBOLIC SURFACE OF REVOLUTION'; 2012

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λ RENEE SO (HONG KONG/AUSTRALIAN, B.1974), 'GREY SLEEVED MAN'; 2012

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λ JEFF KEEN (BRITISH, 1923-2012), 'BLATZAK (MICKEY MOUSE)'; 1966

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λ JEFF KEEN (BRITISH, 1923-2012) ' BLATZAK (MICKEY MOUSE)'; 1966 Mixed media on Masonite 62cm x 92cm Keen is primarily known as a legendary underground filmmaker whose work and activities coincided with the emergence of expanded cinema. He was one of the original participants in the 60s at the London Filmmakers Co-op. The BFI and later the British Arts Council supported and enabled Keen to make films and devise a multitude of drawings and paintings. During this period, Keen maintained jobs as a landscaper in the Parks and Recreation department of his hometown, Brighton, and sometimes as a postal worker delivering mail. The artist made movies primarily on weekends with his family and friends in an ensemble cast and his painting and drawing studio was for 40 years a repository of props and art that accumulated to extraordinary effect that has been fully documented. Embracing the increasingly available technology of 8mm and 16mm film and the prevalence of American Pop imagery and Comics (and later Punk), Keen employed modes of popular media, technology and music in painting, drawing and collage using a stop frame animation process and in camera editing, resulting in active and evocative films. Utilizing a frequency of speed not found in work of the period, Keen, through the possibilities of the medium, brought new life to the significance of radical visual media. Keen's work can be viewed today as prescient to modes of film and video that began to take cultural references into an exploration of our own larger social portraiture. His enthusiastic embrace of alternative modes of discourse in a pre-Internet age is astoundingly fresh today, and the diversity of his practice calls to mind both painters, film and video artists who succeeded him, from such figures as Derek Jarman, Richard Hamilton and Linder, to American artists such as Jack Smith, Ryan Trecartin and Peter Saul Condition Report: The work is unframed. There are some small losses to the edges of the work and the top right hand corner has a partial loss approximately 2.5 x 1cm and a complete loss to the extreme edge of the corner. The top right hand section of the support has come unglued from the masonite board. There is some slight surface dust and dirt throughout. Condition Report Disclaimer

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JAMES AUSTIN MURRAY (AMERICAN B. 1969), QUIET SPIRIT

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), ‘FAUST: MARGUERITE’ COSTUME DESIGN FOR GANNA WALSKA; 1920

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), ‘MARTHA; II ACTE’ COSTUME DESIGN FOR GANNA WALSKA; 1926

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), ‘LES TORUISTES’ COSTUME DESIGN; 1936

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), 'IT'S IN THE BAG; HOMME MASQUÉ' COSTUME DESIGN; 1937

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), 'MANON; CHOEUR DES DE'VOTES' COSTUME DESIGN; 1938/1939

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), FASHION DESIGN; 1946

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), ‘AIDA’ COSTUME DESIGN; 1913

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), ‘TELLE QUE JE LA VOIS’ FASHION DESIGN; CIRCA 1920

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), ‘IRIS; L’ARC-EN-CIEL’ COSTUME DESIGN; 1934/1935

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λ ERTÉ (FRENCH, 1892-1990), ‘DESDEMONA’ COSTUME DESIGN; CIRCA 1930

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