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MODERN BRITISH, & CONTEMPORARY ART

MICHAEL PARKIN FINE ART

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Michael Parkin

Catalogues

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Fitzrovia Fitzrovia and the Road to York Minster Introduction by Ruthven Todd SCARCE £65.00 Michael considered this his best catalogue	Rex Whistler & Stephen Tennant and their two semi-circles Introduction by Simon Blow £35.00	A Salute to Boulestin & Laboureur Marcel Boulestin & Jean-Emile Laboureur Introduction by Denise Hooker Restaurant Boulestin, Southampton St. May 44pp 54 illustrations 1 col £40.00 SCARCE
Kathleen Hale OBE 1898-2000 Memorial Exhibition @ the Redfern Gallery Introduction Michael Parkin Essay Margaret Drabble Essay James Beechey on Cedric Morris & Lett Haines 50 pp 24 illustrations 13 colour Orlando the Marmalade Cat £25.00	The 7 & 5 Society Atkinson Art Galleries, Southport, August;the Minories,Colchester September; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff August;Newlyn Orion Gallery, Penzance February 1980 £35.00 SCARCE 36pp 11 illustrations	Goodbye to Motcomb Street Baron,Mark Glazebrook,Guy Roddon,John Bernasconi, Sophie Parkin James Beechey £20.00
Corsham SCARCE £30.00	Roland Collins	WALTER SICKERT JACQUES EMILE BLANCHE and Friends in DIEPPE £18.00
Artists of David Tennant's Gargoyle Club cover illustration by Lawrence Mynott Unframed Lithograph available £25.00	Four for Whistler Four For Whistler: Whistler, Menpes, Sickert and the Greaves Brothers Introduction Michael Parkin 52 entries £25.00	Joseph a Tale for Children by James & Robin McEwen One of 500 copies bound in McEwen tartan London 1996 52pp in colour £30.00
Walter Greaves A Victim of Whistler £18.00	Cecil Beaton & Friends £40.00 SCARCE	Cornwall A sense of Place … A sense Of Light Introduction by Dr.David Brown £30.00
Sylvia Gosse £30.00 SCARCE	Lowes Dalbiec Luard 1872-1944 £18.00	Chelsea River £18
Cecil Beaton Memorial Exhibition SCARCE £40.00	Chelsea Reach	Walter Greaves and the Nocturne Introduction by Sir John Rothenstein & Michael Parkin £18.00
Artists of the Yellow Book and the Circle of Oscar Wilde (with the Clarendon Gallery) Introduction Gavin Henderson & Michael Parkin Essay by Harvard Montgomery Hyde 103 pages £15.00 paperback £25.00 hardback Beautifully produced as copy of The Yellow Book	Theodore Roussel £10.00	The Cafe Royal Introduction by Michael Parkin £40.00 SCARCE
Hockney & Poetry (with Mark Glazebrook) introduction by Stephen Spender 16pp 19 illustrations £25.00	Greaves & Chelsea River	Sybil Andrews SCARCE £45.00
The Mark of Whistler	Percy Hague Jowett 1882-1953	Three on Holiday in Rye 1913 Lucien Pissarro James Bolivar Manson James Brown £25.00
Jacob Kramer The Outsider Who Came Home £15.00	Walter Sickert The Artist,His Wife,His Mistress,His Friends & One Enemy Introduction by Michael Parkin £40.00	Nina Hamnett & her Circle. Only have the Catalogue with inset for when the Exhibition travelled to Hull SOLD OUT OF ORIGINAL £40.00 SCARCE
Percy Hague Jowett 1882-1955	Young Will & Young Gerald Sir William Rothenstein & Sir Gerald Kelly £18.00	Elsie Henderson Orovida Pissaro £20.00
Ithell Colquhuen £15.00	Artists & Writers £15.00	Wendela Boreel £18.00
Artists & Illustrators Cover Linocut by Christopher Brown £18.00	Christopher Wood with Dr.William Mason £20.00	Albert Victor Ormsby Wood £5.00
Three Women Painters Nadia Benois Clare Crossley Nancy Tennant £18.00	Clare Shenstone Portraits Of Francis Bacon £15.00	Caitlin & Dylan Rupert Shephard National Museum of Wales, Cardiff May; National Library of Wales Aberystwyth, June; Glynn Vivien Art Gallery Swansea August The Macnamara & Thomas backgrounds observed by Rupert Shephard 16pp 7 illustrations £10.00
Blood Sweat & Tears 1940's and All That 9 English Artists : John Armstrong William Gaunt Anthony Gross Mary Hoad Gladys Hynes Henry Lamb John Minton Rupert Shepherd Ruskin Spear 6 pages 3 fold £20.00	Horace Brodzky 1885-1969 £25.00	Brake Baldwin 1885-1915 £18.00
The Judge Hangs Judge Stephen Tumin £10.00

READ GOODBYE TO MOTCOMB STREET

MICHAEL PARKIN

One day at the beginning of 1972 I drove down Motcomb Street and as they say, the sun was shining and even if the birds weren't singing, one remembered the joy of Lord Berners dyed doves at Farringdon and of course Elgar's 'Enigma Variations' was on the car radio. I noticed renovations, new paint and a 'For Sale' notice advertising a lease in Halkin Arcade just off Motcomb Street.Whether it was Mr Marsh and Parsons or Mr Knight Frank, before he said goodbye to Rutley, I cannot remember, but I had certainly caught the art bug twenty five years before and during the time that followed I built up a small collection of Modern British and a decent small library of relevant books. Little did I think then that I would only be there til the end of the next year before moving 100 yards to Motcomb Street for the next twenty seven years until the end of the lease...

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