Take 5 With Florrie Evans

Introducing Take 5 by Florrie Evans and her five highlights from the upcoming sale of Modern British & 20th Century Art Part I and Part II, taking place on Wednesday 11 September.

A London-based art dealer specialising in 20th and 21st Century British art, including pictures, sculpture, and ceramics, Florri curates exhibitions online and in gallery pop-ups, such as the Decorative Fair in Battersea. With degrees from Oxford and The Courtauld, and over a decade of experience at Christie’s and The Fine Art Society, Florrie is also passionate about bringing forgotten women artists to light, historical costume, and mudlarking the River Thames for artefacts that reveal London’s rich social history.
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LOT 109: Cathleen Sabine Mann ROI RP SWA, British 1896-1959 - Reclining nude with blue cloth, 1938
There is something about the tension in a female nude painted by a woman artist that is so different, the energy is so different than a nude by a male artist and that is something I'm really struck by with this fantastic painting by Cathleen Mann.

LOT 350: Mary Potter OBE, British 1900-1981 - Autumn Tree, 1960

Here Mary Potter takes us into a muddy field near Aldeburgh on a rainy autumnal day and distils the essence of the English countryside in a really wonderfully abstract way. 

LOT 367: Eliot Hodgkin, British 1905-1987 - One Pomegranate, 1954

If you aspire to an Eliot Hodgkin you really don't get more perfect than this pomegranate which has been exquisitely painted in tempera. I love the way you just have these three seeds that have come out and remind me of Persephone and probably he was thinking about her too.

LOT 68: Grace English, British 1891-1956 -  Miss Vero Pieris, 1939

This is a fascinating portrait of a female artist by a female artist. Vero Pieris was a Sri Lankan sculptor who was actually also painted by Cedric Morris so there are lots of interesting artistic connections going on here.

LOT 119: Winifred Lynton Hannay, British 1890-1964 - Portrait of mother and child

This is such a tender portrait of a mother and child by a female artist. You really feel that there's some special connection. It was painted in 1914 at the beginning of the First World War and it also has elements costume-wise that remind me of the Ballet Russe.