Frank Brangwyn 2

During his lifetime Brangwyn made large donations of his works to museums in the United Kingdom and abroad, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, the William Morris Gallery, the Albertina in Vienna and the Gruuthuse in Bruges. As a result of this munificence, substantial drawings by Brangwyn, especially his celebrated large sheets in red and black chalk, only rarely appear on the market. Ö The endless extant sketches that he made on the backs of envelopes, letterheads and scraps of paper are evidence that for Brangwyn drawing was a compulsion. In her forthcoming catalogue raisonnÈ, Dr. Libby Horner has recorded over three thousand drawings by Brangwyn. Ö The drawings that became Esserís collection, which have lain hidden for over half a century, were made up of works that Brangwyn, with characteristic modesty, had left in his studio with a written instruction, ëmost of this lot destroyí. Never intended for presentation, they explore and resolve alternative compositions and the relation of figures to each other and to the space they occupy.

Works Featured in this catalogue

Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Man Carrying Child on His Back
£1,950
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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Soldier Drinking Wine from a Bottle – Study for the Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg, 1921
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Loot, working proof
£2,200
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Bricklayers, a study for Rebuilding Belgium, 1915
£6,350
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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Studies for Man Playing Guitar
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Making Sailors: Youthful Ambition c.1917
£1,400
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Allegory of War and Industry
£1,490
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Boy with Globe, study for panel 5, Skinners
£2,450
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Courtier, study for Panel 2, Skinners
£1,650
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
A Trader, Study for Selfridges
£2,000
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Studies of a Kneeling and Seated Man
£1,600
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Figure study, Study for St Aidan
£1,600
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Portrait of Jerome Esser?
£3,740
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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Man Singing, study for Christ’s Hospital, panel 7
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Study for the Empire Panels, circa 1925
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Studies for St Amand and St Eloi ‘ windows in the Abbey St Andr’, Bruges
£6,350
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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Study for Mans Ultimate Destiny, c. 1932
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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Study for central panel of Nativity window, St Mary the Virgin, Bucklebury, Berkshire, early 1920’s
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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Working Men, study for Lloyds Register of Shipping
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Study of Man Carrying Rifle, Study for Jefferson City
£1,490
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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Study for Harmony, Skinners, c.1908
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Study of a Monk, full length three-quarter view, Study for St Aidan
£3,140
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Man Playing Flute, study for panel 3, Skinners
£1,600
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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Mural study for St Aidan’s Leeds, a young girl with red hair, c. 1908-16