13th Jun, 2026 9:30 GMT/BST
Modern & Contemporary Art
443
Charles Murray (1894-1954) Scottish
Mothers carrying babies on a shore
Signed, watercolour, together with a further gouache heightened with white depicting skaters on a frozen pond, 59.5cm by 42cm and 31cm by 48cm respectively (2) (all unframed)
Charles Murray was a painter and printmaker born in Aberdeen. The grandson of a sculptor, he studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1908 until 1911. In 1923, Murray won the Prix de Rome for etching, which enabled him to go and study at the British School in Rome. During his time in Europe, he travelled extensively before moving back to Scotland in 1926 to teach engraving at the School of Art in Glasgow. Later, he went on to live in Leeds and Middlesex. Murray’s subjects are drawn from everyday rural life as well as from his travels in Iceland and Russia, and many of his works have religious connotations.
Sold for £70
Estimated at £80 - £120
Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 13th Jun, 2026
“Bolton Junction Eccleshill, Bradford”, a rare early mixed media work made by David Hockney when he was just 19, is one of the highlights of the sale. The work was purchased from David Hockney at his end of year show at Bradford Regional College of Art by Malcolm Riley, a tutor at the college and the vendor’s father.
The sale will be a celebration of Northern Art with some of the most significant artists of the region represented, including two drawings by L.S. Lowry, a selection of works by mining artists Norman Cornish and Tom McGuinness, and three paintings by Huddersfield-born contemporary artist Maxwell Doig.
Ceramics by Pablo Picasso will sit alongside pictures by Ken Howard, Spanish artist Carlos Nadal, David Shepherd, and a vibrant ‘Heart Spin’ by Damien Hirst, made to celebrate the opening of Damien Hirst: Requiem, an exhibition at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv 2009.
A Yorkshire View Part II: The sale will open with A Yorkshire View Part II, a large Private Collection of paintings, principally of Yorkshire or by Yorkshire artists, collected by textiles manufacturer George Hopkinson. Artists represented in the collection include Fred Cecil Jones, Fred Lawson, Jacob Kramer and Philip Naviasky. The Yorkshire View Part I was held at Tennants in 2021, and the catalogue can be viewed HERE.
To be sold in nearly sixty lots, the pictures on offer are just a small part of the collection built up over fifty years from the 1920s to the 1960s by Mr George G Hopkinson, a proud Yorkshireman and textile businessman who was a director of West Riding textile company Hopkinson and Shore and Bradford fashion house Novello’s. Upon his death in 1969, the collection was divided between his second wife, Joan, and the families of his two sons, John and Gary. The paintings presented in this sale formed part of John Hopkinson’s estate. The collection is a legacy from a remarkable individual whose discerning eye played a significant role in promoting Yorkshire-based artists of his time. Read more about the Collector.
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