14th Jun, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST
Modern & Contemporary Art
399
Pilipili Mulongoy (1914-2007) Congolese
Mongoose in a tree
Signed, oil on paper, 32cm by 44cm
Provenance: The vendor's parents lived in the Belgian Congo during the 1950s
Sold for £1,500
Estimated at £700 - £1,000
Slight cockling to paper. Time staining to the mount. Possible bloom to areas of the brown paint, in particular to the branches and the central and right mongoose. Areas where the paint has become transposed onto the glass, in particular to a red dot above the first branch to left of trunk, to the red dots to the lower right of the first branch on the right, in addition to areas of the central mongoose and the central branch above him. 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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