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Lot 143

*SUSHILA SINGH (1904-1999) A view of a country house with figures playing croquet

signed "M.S. Singh" lower left, tempera on composite panel, 42.5cm x 60cm; together with a stylised view of trees beside a river, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 35.5cm x 50.5cm (2)

Provenance: The Collection of Bournemouth & Poole College.

Condition Report: click here
Estimate: £100 - £200
Hammer price: £1,900
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Sushila Singh was a painter, print maker and occasional ceramicist born in India in 1904. Her father, the Queen's counsel Bawa Dhanwant Singh, retired to England to give Sushila the advantage of an education not yet available to girls in India. 

Sushila's early works were surrealist in nature, with her later work becoming more abstract, yet retaining a dreamlike quality. Sushila held solo exhibitions at the John Whibley Gallery, Exeter University, Oxford, Grabowski and Heal's Mansard Galleries and Galerie Niklaus Knoll, Basel, Switzerland. 

Sushila Singh and Arthur Henry Andrews met whilst students at Hornsey School of Art and latterly Royal College of Art under William Rothenstein, where they graduated in 1929. The pair were married in 1930,

Singh and Andrews' works are held in public collections such as Atkinson Art Gallery, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and the Paintings in Hospitals Scheme, as well as private collections around the world. 


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House painting with figures - large deep chip to the panel along the top edge exposing bare wood, two smaller ones a few inches away, other small chips and scuffs to the edges, would be covered by a frame, other signs of wear and light scratching

Landscape with trees - unframed so a little 'rough around the edges', some surface wear but no obvious large scale damage or restoration visible

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