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Lot 146

*SUSHILA SINGH (1904-1999) Abstract composition

in the style of John Tunnard, mixed media on board, 41cm x 33cm, the reverse with a nude study; together with a stylised study of trees 'Birds in the Mist', signed lower left, oil on canvas, 45.5cm x 35.5cm (unframed on stretcher) (2)

Provenance: The Collection of Bournemouth & Poole College.

Condition Report: click here
Estimate: £150 - £250
Hammer price: £650
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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The abstract composition has some damage to the rear of the frame, only visible on verso. 

'Birds in the mist' is unframed so some minor dents and marks to the sides. Split to stretcher on verso. 

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