14th Jun, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST
Modern & Contemporary Art
458
Patrick Procktor RA (1936-2003)
"Kathmandu" (1970)
Signed and inscribed A/P, aquatint from "The China Series", 47cm by 68.5cm
Provenance: The Redfern Gallery, London
Literature: "Patrick Procktor - Prints 1959-1985", The Redfern Gallery and Editions Alecto, 1985, p.60, no.21
Sold together with a copy of "Patrick Proctor Art and Life", Ian Massey, Unicorn Press, 2010
Known for his theatricality in both artistic output and physical presence, Procktor demonstrated a proficiency of style and articulate dynamism which dazzled the 1960s and 1970s London art scene. He trained at The Slade School of Fine Art (1958-1962) and had a proficient and successful career, being elected Royal Academician in 1996.
Procktor was fascinated by light and colour, and interwove his artistic practice with his travels, including those in East Asia. He was the first modern European artist to visit China in 1980, since the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, having secured permission to travel freely in China with a guide and a driver. Procktor travelled to Hong Kong, and then headed north to the landscapes further inland, including Guangzhou, Guilin, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing and Beijing. The artist captures the beauty of these locations within "The China Series" (1980), see lots 463-468, celebrating Chinese design, architecture and scenery.
Sold for £650
Estimated at £300 - £500
Cockling to the paper. Some light surface dirt and debris trapped under the glass. The odd minor sporadic tiny foxing spots to margin. Pronounced plate mark to upper right corner, and a brown line above this approximately 5cm in length. Further brown mark to lower right corner near signature. Not examined out of the frame.
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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 14th Jun, 2025
Two interesting works by Alfred Wallis, self-taught fisherman-artist from St Ives, will lead the Modern & Contemporary Art Sale; Sailboats and Fish and Steamboats and Lighthouse were purchased by the vendor’s grandmother directly from the artist. Heading a good offering of Northern Art in the sale are three works by Helen Bradley, who reinvented herself as an internationally acclaimed artist aged 75. Using a soft yet colourful palette and simple two-dimensional figures, she illustrated short narrative accounts based on early childhood memories of growing up in the Edwardian era.
Other artists represented in the sale include David Hockney, Lynn Chadwick, Madeline Green, Norman Cornish, Brian 'Braaq' Shields, Sally Arnup, Kenneth Armitage, Henry Moore, Paul Nash and Howard Hodgkin.
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