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b. 1925 - d. 2007

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) FOUR VIEWS OF FIELD HOUSE, SWALEDALE one signed and titled B Myers / Swaledale Field House on the reverse; three signed and titled B Myers / Swaledale on the reverse oil on card each 12.5 x 17.5cm; 5 x 7in unframed (4)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) FOUR VIEWS OF SWALEDALE three signed and titled B Myers / Swaledale on the reverse; one signed and titled B Myers / River Swale on the reverse oil on card each 12.5 x 17.5cm; 5 x 7in unframed (4)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) FOUR VIEWS OF THE PENNINES (i & ii) signed and titled B Myers / Pennines on the reverse; (iii) signed and titled B Myers / Pennines Quary on the reverse; (iv) signed and titled B Myers / Pennines Landscape on the reverse oil on card (i, ii & iii) 12.5 x 17.5cm; 5 x 7in; (iv) 14.5 x 20.5cm; 5 3/4 x 8in unframed (4)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) I & II VIEWS OF SCHÖNBRUNN; III & IV VIEWS OF MAURITIUS (i & ii) signed and titled B Myers / Schönbrunn on the reverse; (iii & iv) signed with initials lower right; titled B Myers / Mauritius on a label on the reverse, of which one titled Near Chamarel; the other titled Sunset La Pirogue oil on card each 12.5 x 17.5cm; 5 x 7in unframed (4)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) CHURCH OF SANTA FOSCA, TORCELLO, VENICE signed with initial lower right; titled S. Fosca Torcello on the reverse oil on thick paper 53 x 73cm; 20 3/4 x 28 3/4in (image) unframed with the studio inventory number 0665 on the reverse The church of Santa Fosca, located on the island of Torcello in the Venetian lagoon, dates to the 12th century and forms part of the complex of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. The church houses the relics of Saint Fusca, a child matyr from Libya who was killed alongside her nurse in 250 AD. Torcello was a prosperous trading port, founded much earlier than it's neighbour, Venice. However, plague, malaria and the silting up of it's canals lead to its abandonment.

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) SCULLER ON THE THAMES oil on thick paper 52.5 x 72.5cm; 20 1/2 x 28 1/2in (image) unframed with the studio inventory number 0477 on the reverse

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) VIEW OF THE THAMES WITH HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE signed with initial lower right; signed B Myers on the reverse oil on thick paper 52 x 72.5cm; 20 1/2 x 28 1/2in (image) unframed with the studio inventory number 0798 on the reverse

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) RACING EIGHT ON THE THAMES oil on thick paper 53 x 73cm; 20 3/4 x 28 3/4in (image) unframed with the studio inventory number 0169 on the reverse

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £250 - £350

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) (I) ILLUMINATIONS 3; (II) WATER 1 (i) signed with initials and dated 69 lower right; (ii) signed with initials and dated 67 lower right oil pastel on paper (i) 31.5 x 39cm; 12 1/2 x 15 1/4in (image) 52 x 57cm; 20 1/2 x 22 1/2in (framed) (ii) 35 x 38.5cm; 13 3/4 x 15 1/4in 56 x 56.5cm; 22 x 22 1/4in (framed) (2) with the studio inventory numbers 207 & 212 on the reverse Provenance with The New Art Centre, London Exhibited The New Art Centre, London, nos. 3 & 27

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) TWO SEATED FEMALE NUDES - A PAIR both signed with initials, one lower right, one lower left; both signed B Myers on the reverse oil on card 32 x 23cm; 12 1/2 x 9in unframed (2)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFE OF ROSES IN A VASE WITH FRUIT signed B Myers lower left oil pastel on paper 52 x 71.5cm; 20 1/2 x 28 1/4in (sheet) unframed with the studio inventory number 1086 on the reverse

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) TWO PLANETARY COMPOSITIONS - RED both signed with initials lower right; both signed B Myers on the reverse oil pastel on paper one 38 x 47cm; 15 x 18 1/2in; the other 40 x 44cm; 16 x 17 3/4in (image) unframed (2)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) THREE STANDING NUDES POSING WITH RIGHT KNEE UP each signed B Myers on reverse oil on artists' card two 35.5 x 25.5cm; 14 x 10in, one 30.5 x 23cm; 12 x 9in unframed (3)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS IN A BLUE AND WHITE VASE WITH APPLES oil pastel on paper 48 x 65cm; 19 x 25 1/2in unframed with the studio inventory number 1050 on the reverse

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £300 - £500

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) COSMIC COMPOSITIONS both signed with initials and dated 73 lower right oil pastel on paper each 70.5 x 50.5cm; 27 3/4 x 20in 82 x 61.5cm; 32 1/4 x 24 1/4in (framed) (2) both with the studio inventory numbers 0215 & 0216 on the reverse

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) THREE FEMALE NUDES each signed on reverse oil on paper 22 x 15cm; 8 3/4 x 6in unframed (3)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFE OF TULIPS IN A VASE WITH FRUIT signed B Myers lower left oil pastel on paper 53 x 73cm; 20 3/4 x 28 3/4in unframed with the studio inventory number 1060 on the reverse

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) TWO PLANETARY COMPOSITIONS - BLUE both signed with initials, one lower right, one lower left; both signed B Myers on the reverse oil pastel on paper 38 x 41cm; 15 x 16in unframed (2)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) TWO SEATED NUDES - A PAIR both signed B Myers on reverse oil on artists' card 25.5 x 18cm; 10 x 7in unframed (2)

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      • ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Oct. 02, 2024

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        ⊕ BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) Bernard Myers (lots 139-158) Work and travel in the Middle East and India introduced me to a world of colour. Under the influence of Islamic tiles and textiles, and Indian and Tibetan painting I set out to teach myself colour. My work at this time was mainly abstract and loosely based on astronomical and optical diagrams. Gradually I turned to realism via still life, working very precisely... (Bernard Myers) Introduction Trained as a gunner in the RAF during the Second World War, Bernard Myers studied at St Martin’s School of Art, Camberwell and the Royal College of Art. Fellow students included John Bratby and Jack Smith, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. After graduating ARCA in 1954, Myers taught, variously at Camberwell, Hammersmith and Ealing art schools, and was senior lecturer in drawing at the Architectural Association School. He returned to the RCA to teach for the following two decades, punctuated in 1968 and 1971 by stints as Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of technology, New Delhi. His final teaching post was as Chair of Design Technology at Brunel University (1979-85). Students at the RCA treasured Myers’ good advice. James Dyson remembered him as ‘cheerful, irrepressible [and] rather dapper… with a tweed suit and bowtie…’ But as well as being upbeat Myers was also appreciated for his considerable range of mind and intellect. On being made a Fellow, in his welcome speech the Dean noted that Myers ‘…must without doubt be the most versatile graduate ever to emerge from the Painting School. Since joining the College in 1961 he has been, by virtue of an encyclopaedic knowledge which comfortably bestrides the boundaries between the humane and the technological, and of his superlative gifts as a teacher, in demand by virtually every School and Department within the College…’ The plus side for Myers was that teaching left him free to practise his own art exactly as he wished. As he noted: ‘Some artists find that teaching interferes with their work. I find it clarifies my work.’ Indeed, he had an unstoppable compulsion to paint, incessantly exploring a wide range of subject matter, in particular the landscapes he encountered on his varied travels (lots 209-213), the still-lifes he worked on in his studio (lots 194,197,,200 & 203), the nudes he painted in weekly life-classes (195, 198, 201, 204), and his not infrequent forays into abstraction, precipitated in part by his fascination with space (lots 196, 199, 202, 205). He married Pamela Fildes, grand-daughter of the painter Sir Luke Fildes in the early 1950s; they lived first in Windsor and then in Kensington before moving in 1974 into one of the studios overlooking the Thames at St Peter’s Wharf, purpose built by Julian Trevelyan, next to Hammersmith Terrace (lots 206-208). He had several one-man shows in the West End, the first at the New Art Centre in 1969; his last with Austin Desmond Fine Art in 1991. He wrote two books on Goya, others on the history of sculpture and How to Look at Art, and co-edited The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Art (1979). He also penned articles for The Artist (May 1988) on his highly original approach to pastel (lots 139-142 & 147-150), and Artists and Illustrators (1995) on his Venice views (lot 209). STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS AND PEARS ON A PLATTER signed B Myers lower right; inscribed New Grafton 7 upper left margin oil pastel on paper 52.5 x 72cm; 20 3/4 x 28 1/4in (image) unframed

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      • § BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH, 1925-2007)
        Jun. 18, 2024

        § BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH, 1925-2007)

        Est: £300 - £500

        § BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH, 1925-2007) BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH, 1925-2007) Vauxhall Bridge signed 'B.Myers' (on the reverse) oil on board 46 x 61 cm. (18 1/8 x 24 in.) Provenance Sale; Sworders, Stansted, 1 August 2021, lot 10

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      • § BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH, 1925-2007)
        Jun. 18, 2024

        § BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH, 1925-2007)

        Est: £300 - £500

        § BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH, 1925-2007) BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH, 1925-2007) Vauxhall Bridge signed 'B.Myers' (verso) oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm. (18 1/8 x 24 in.) Provenance Sale; Sworders, Stansted, 1 August 2021, lot 10

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) THE THAMES FROM THE STUDIO oil on board 38 x 51cm; 15 x 20in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 0285 on the reverse.

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) BARNES: THE THAMES AT HIGH TIDE signed with initials lower right oil on board 36 x 46cm; 14 x 18in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 0367 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £120 - £180

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) FOUR VIEWS OF THE PENNINES each: signed B Myers on the reverse; two examples titled Pennines on the reverse oil on card each: 12.5 x 17.5cm; 5 x 7in (all unframed) (4)

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £150 - £250

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) (i) MAURITIUS I; (ii) MAURITIUS II; (iii) COLOURED EARTHS; (iv) RIVIERE NOIRE (iii) & (iv) signed with initital lower right; signed and titled Bernard Myers on the reverse (i) & (ii) signed and titled B Myers / Mauritius on the reverse oil on card each:12.5 x 17.5cm; 5 x 7in (all unframed) (4)

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) CHURCH OF SANTA FOSCA, TORCELLO, VENICE signed with initials lower right oil on board 34.5 x 52.5cm; 13 1/2 x 20 1/2in 43 x 61cm; 17 x 24in (framed) The church of Santa Fosca, located on the island of Torcello in the Venetian lagoon, dates to the 12th century and forms part of the complex of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. The church houses the relics of Saint Fusca, a child matyr from Libya who was killed alongside her nurse in 250 AD. Torcello was a prosperous trading port, founded much earlier than it's neighbour, Venice. However, plague, malaria and the silting up of it's canals lead to its abandonment.

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) VENICE signed with initals lower right; signed and titled B Myers / Venice on the backboard oil on board 34 x 50.5cm; 13 1/2 x 19 3/4in 49 x 65cm; 19 1/4 x 25 3/4 (framed) With the studio inventory number 0324 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) PONTE DELL' ACCADEMIA, VENICE signed with initials lower right oil on board 34.5 x 52.5cm; 13 3/4 x 20.5in 44 x 61cm; 17 3/4 x 24in (framed) With the studio inventory number 0327 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £300 - £500

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) THE DOGE'S PALACE, VENICE signed with initials lower right oil on board 52 x 72.5cm; 20 1/2 x 28.5in 64 x 84cm; 25 1/4 x 33 1/4in (framed) With the studio inventory number 0322 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £150 - £250

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFES OF CORNFLOWERS AND ROSES - A PAIR pastel on paper 44.5 x 29.5cm; 17 1/2 x 30in (both unframed) (2)

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFES OF ROSES AND CORNFLOWERS pastel (i) 42 x 30cm; 16 1/2 x 11 3/4in (ii) 46 x 30.5; 18 x 12in (both unframed) (2)

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFE WITH ROSES IN A VASE AND FRUIT signed B Myers lower right pastel over crayon on paper 56 x 76cm; 22 x 30in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 1079 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFE WITH IRISES IN A CHINESE VASE signed B Myers lower left pastel on paper 56 x 76cm; 22 x 30in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 1068 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFE OF POPPIES IN A BLUE AND WHITE VASE oil on board 41 x 51cm; 16 x 20in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 0317 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £150 - £250

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFE WITH DAFFODILS AND TWO ORANGES oil on board 30.5 x 40.5cm; 12 x 16in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 0378 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFE OF ANEMONES IN A JUG oil on board 61 x 51cm; 24 x 20in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 0316 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) STILL LIFE OF YELLOW ROSES IN A VASE signed with initals lower left oil on canvas 41 x 50.5cm; 16 1/4 x 19 3/4in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 0304 on the reverse

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £120 - £180

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) PLANETARY COMPOSITIONS VII & VIII - A PAIR oil pastel on thin paper each: 56 x 42.5cm; 22 x 16 3/4in (both unframed) (2)

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £120 - £180

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) PLANETARY COMPOSITIONS V & VI - A PAIR oil pastel on paper each: 59 x 57cm; 23 1/4 x 22 1/2in (both unframed) (2)

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £120 - £180

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) PLANETARY COMPOSITIONS III & IV - A PAIR oil pastel on paper each: 39 x 44cm; 15 1/4 x 17 1/4in (both unframed) (2)

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      • • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)
        Mar. 20, 2024

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007)

        Est: £120 - £180

        • BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) Bernard Myers (lots 139-158) Work and travel in the Middle East and India introduced me to a world of colour. Under the influence of Islamic tiles and textiles, and Indian and Tibetan painting I set out to teach myself colour. My work at this time was mainly abstract and loosely based on astronomical and optical diagrams. Gradually I turned to realism via still life, working very precisely... (Bernard Myers) Introduction Trained as a gunner in the RAF during the Second World War, Bernard Myers studied at St Martin’s School of Art, Camberwell and the Royal College of Art. Fellow students included John Bratby and Jack Smith, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. After graduating ARCA in 1954, Myers taught, variously at Camberwell, Hammersmith and Ealing art schools, and was senior lecturer in drawing at the Architectural Association School. He returned to the RCA to teach for the following two decades, punctuated in 1968 and 1971 by stints as Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of technology, New Delhi. His final teaching post was as Chair of Design Technology at Brunel University (1979-85). Students at the RCA treasured Myers’ good advice. James Dyson remembered him as ‘cheerful, irrepressible [and] rather dapper… with a tweed suit and bowtie…’ But as well as being upbeat Myers was also appreciated for his considerable range of mind and intellect. On being made a Fellow, in his welcome speech the Dean noted that Myers ‘…must without doubt be the most versatile graduate ever to emerge from the Painting School. Since joining the College in 1961 he has been, by virtue of an encyclopaedic knowledge which comfortably bestrides the boundaries between the humane and the technological, and of his superlative gifts as a teacher, in demand by virtually every School and Department within the College…’ The plus side for Myers was that teaching left him free to practise his own art exactly as he wished. As he noted: ‘Some artists find that teaching interferes with their work. I find it clarifies my work.’ Indeed, he had an unstoppable compulsion to paint, incessantly exploring a wide range of subject matter, in particular the landscapes he encountered on his varied travels (lots 151-156), the still-lifes he worked on in his studio (lots 143-150), the nudes he painted in weekly life-classes, and his not infrequent forays into abstraction, precipitated in part by his fascination with space (lots 139-142). He married Pamela Fildes, grand-daughter of the painter Sir Luke Fildes in the early 1950s; they lived first in Windsor and then in Kensington before moving in 1974 into one of the studios overlooking the Thames at St Peter’s Wharf, purpose built by Julian Trevelyan, next to Hammersmith Terrace (lots 157 &158). He had several one-man shows in the West End, the first at the New Art Centre in 1969; his last with Austin Desmond Fine Art in 1991. He wrote two books on Goya, others on the history of sculpture and How to Look at Art, and co-edited The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Art (1979). He also penned articles for The Artist (May 1988) on his highly original approach to pastel (lots 139-142 & 147-150), and Artists and Illustrators (1995) on his Venice views (lots 151- 154). 139 BERNARD MYERS (BRITISH 1925-2007) PLANETARY COMPOSITIONS I & II oil pastel on thin paper (i) 56 x 43cm; 22 x 17in (ii) 43 x 56cm; 17 x 22in (both unframed) (2)

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      • Bernard Myers (British, 1925-2007), stil
        Dec. 07, 2023

        Bernard Myers (British, 1925-2007), stil

        Est: £150 - £200

        Bernard Myers (British, 1925-2007), still life of wildflowers in a blue and white striped mug, signed l.r., pastel, 35 by 24cm, framed. Note: Artist Resale Rights apply

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      • BERNARD MYERS 1925-2007)
        Oct. 11, 2023

        BERNARD MYERS 1925-2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        BERNARD MYERS 1925-2007) DINGY SAILING ON THE THAMES signed with initials lower right oil on paper 52.5 x 73cm; 20 1/2 x 28 3/4in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 0456 on the reverse ARR may apply

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      • BERNARD MYERS (1925-2007)
        Oct. 11, 2023

        BERNARD MYERS (1925-2007)

        Est: £150 - £250

        BERNARD MYERS (1925-2007) SCULLERS ON THE THAMES signed with initials lower right; signed Bernard Myers on reverse oil on canvas 55 x 75cm; 21 3/4 x 29 1/2in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 0555 on the reverse ARR may apply

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      • BERNARD MYERS (b.1925-d.2007)
        Oct. 11, 2023

        BERNARD MYERS (b.1925-d.2007)

        Est: £200 - £300

        BERNARD MYERS (b.1925-d.2007) DINGY SAILING BY BARNES BRIDGE signed with initials lower right oil on canvas 75 x 55cm; 29 1/2 x 21 3/4in (unframed) With the studio inventory number 0469 on the reverse ARR may apply

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      • BERNARD MYERS (b.1925-d.2007)
        Oct. 11, 2023

        BERNARD MYERS (b.1925-d.2007)

        Est: £150 - £250

        BERNARD MYERS (b.1925-d.2007) (i) SOLDIERS WITH HORSES; (ii) STUDY OF A CONCH SHELL oil on canvas (i) 30.5 x 35.5 cm; 12 x 14in (ii) 35.5 x 25; 14 x 10in (unframed) (2) With the studio inventory numbers 0392 (i) and 0393 (ii) on the reverse ARR may apply

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      • BERNARD MYERS (1925-2007)
        Oct. 11, 2023

        BERNARD MYERS (1925-2007)

        Est: £100 - £150

        BERNARD MYERS (1925-2007) ST MARKS, VENICE signed with the initials lower right oil on paper 51.5 x 34cm; 20 1/4 x 13 1/4in 58.5 x 41cm; 23 x 16in (framed) With the studio inventory number 0325 on the reverse ARR may apply

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