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Auction Location: London, UK  

Our one-of-a-kind bi-annual auction From the Studio: Works from Artists Estates focuses on the rediscovery of 20th century artists. Many exhibited in leading West End galleries in their day, their works featuring in museums and art galleries around the world. All now deceased, with many having descended into undeserved obscurity since, the sale puts a fresh spotlight on them and their work. Chapter by chapter the sale catalogue reveals a range of extraordinarily talented men and women, each with their own story to tell.

Most of the artists were admired, promoted and written about by eminent 20th century art critics. Several were Jewish emigres, forced from their homelands to find their way anew in Britain and elsewhere.  Many were close friends with other leading contemporary artists, sharing studios and ideas; some taught, several at the Royal College of Art. Throughout, their efforts both individually and together chart the numerous movements and counter movements that define the dynamic 20th century modernist landscape, from the Academic tradition to Impressionism, Modernism and Abstraction.

Of the sixteen artists presented in the current From the Studios sale format five are being offered for the first time: Wilfred de Glehn, Jane de Glehn, Anthony Gilbert, Michael Kenny and John Miller.

PUBLIC EXHIBITION:
Sunday 15th March: 12pm - 4pm
Monday 16th March: 10am - 8pm (Drinks 6pm - 8pm)
Tuesday 17th March: 10am - 5pm 

VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT:
Wednesday 18th March: 10am - 5pm
Thursday 19th March: 10am - 5pm
Friday 20th March: 10am - 5pm

AUCTION:
Starts: 12th March, 2026
Ends: 22th March, 2026 

Contact the Pictures Department for further information | pictures@olympiaauctions.com | + 44 (0) 20 7806 5541

MANY LOTS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE

Our biannual online auction of paintings, works on paper and sculpture offers a wide range of categories and works from the 17^th century to the present day. Designed to appeal to all tastes, it comprises a vast array of subject matter with very attractive 'middle-market' estimates with many lots offered without reserve.

The current sale features a number of collections. These include a quantity of lively costume designs by Doris Zinkheisen and portraits of stars of screen and stage by Boris Smirnoff from the Vineyard Hotel, Stockcross in Berkshire (lots 572-590 & 623-642 respectively); a  fascinating range of post-war Modernist paintings consigned by a collector in south London, and the first sixty-four lots in the sale (lots 401-465) from a private collection in Surrey which are especially strong in prints and watercolours of topographical and botanical interest.

Other works in the sale with fascinating stories attached include lot 479 of Leslie Howard by Antony Beauchamp, lots 568-570 by Madge Gill and lot 644, a very early 1937 celluloid of Doc, the head dwarf in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney’s first full length animated feature.

Contact the Pictures Department for further information | pictures@olympiaauctions.com | +44 (0)20 7806 5541

PLEASE NOTE:

The lots close 30 seconds apart from each other, but if there is another bid in the final 10 minutes of a particular lot closing, the time of this lot will be extended.

The office is closed over the weekend, but the pictures@olympiaauctions.com email is being monitored. Please contact us here if you have any queries.

 PUBLIC EXHIBITION:
Sunday 15th March: 12pm to 4pm
Monday 16th March: 10am to 8pm (Drinks 6 to 8pm)
Tuesday 17th March: 10am to 5pm

VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT:
Wednesday 18th March: 10am - 5pm
Thursday 19th March: 10am - 5pm
Friday 20th March: 10am - 5pm

AUCTION:
Ends: From 2pm, 22th March, 2026 

The Spring Jewellery & Watches auction is one of our live sales offering antique and modern jewellery and watches. 

Timed Auction opening on 3rd February at 16:00 and closing on 1st March 2026 from 14:00

Timed Auction opening on 20th February 16:00 and closing on 1st March 2026 from 16:00

Auction Location: London, UK

John Russell Taylor was a compulsive collector. When he died at the age of ninety, his two bedroom flat on the corner of Brook Green was floor to ceiling with books and pictures that he had collected over the last seventy years. A precocious talent he was awarded a scholarship to read English at Cambridge aged 16 and graduated with a starred First Class degree. Film, theatre and art critic for The Times for more than four decades, he wrote thousands of articles and reviews for the newspaper. He also wrote over sixty books – critical studies, biographies, and monographs. He was appointed professor of Film at the University of Southern California during the 1970s, when he was asked by Alfred Hitchcock to write his biography. Hitch remains the standard text on the film director. John's interests ranged across all aspects of the arts from Art Nouveau book illustration to Vorticism, fan paintings, poetry and stage design. Struck by the visual rather than the value of a work of art, the sale of his picture collection gives a flavour of the full gamut of his encyclopaedic mind, a man remembered for his phenomenal range of reference, his extraordinary talent for writing and his warm and generous character.

Contact the Pictures Department for further information | pictures@olympiaauctions.com | +44 (0)20 7806 5541

PLEASE NOTE:

The lots close 30 seconds apart from each other, but if there is another bid in the final 10 minutes of a particular lot closing, the time of this lot will be extended.

The office is closed over the weekend, but the pictures@olympiaauctions.com email is being monitored. Please contact us here if you have any queries.

PUBLIC EXHIBITION
Friday 6th February: 10am - 5pm
Sunday 8^th  February: 12pm - 4pm
Monday 9^th February: 10am - 8pm (Drinks: 5pm - 8pm)
Tuesday 10^th February: 10am - 5pm

Auction Location: London, UK

John Russell Taylor was a compulsive collector. When he died at the age of ninety, his two bedroom flat on the corner of Brook Green was floor to ceiling with books and pictures that he had collected over the last seventy years. A precocious talent he was awarded a scholarship to read English at Cambridge aged 16 and graduated with a starred First Class degree. Film, theatre and art critic for The Times for more than four decades, he wrote thousands of articles and reviews for the newspaper. He also wrote over sixty books – critical studies, biographies, and monographs. He was appointed professor of Film at the University of Southern California during the 1970s, when he was asked by Alfred Hitchcock to write his biography. Hitch remains the standard text on the film director. John's interests ranged across all aspects of the arts from Art Nouveau book illustration to Vorticism, fan paintings, poetry and stage design. Struck by the visual rather than the value of a work of art, the sale of his picture collection gives a flavour of the full gamut of his encyclopaedic mind, a man remembered for his phenomenal range of reference, his extraordinary talent for writing and his warm and generous character.

For a copy of the printed catalogue, email pictures@olympiaauctions.com 

PUBLIC EXHIBITION
Friday 6th February: 10am - 5pm
Sunday 8^th  February: 12pm - 4pm
Monday 9^th February: 10am - 8pm (Drinks: 5pm - 8pm)
Tuesday 10^th February: 10am - 5pm

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