Lot 622: The following seven lots 536-542 are by the

The following seven lots 536-542 are by the Austrian artist Hedi Schick, 1906-1999 Born in Vienna in 1906, Hedi SchÝck studied at the Applied Arts School where she was encouraged by the artist Oskar Kokoschka. She escaped Nazi persecution in Austria, came to Britain in 1936 and began working painting theatre backdrops and scene painting, receiving British Citizenship in 1947. She met Clement and Wilfred Hall who ran the Hill Gallery, an Islington art gallery and became their picture restorer. She exhibited with the Islington Art Circle during the 1950s and 1960s. Much of this work was based on her family's experiences in the Holocaust. She worked as an illustrator, illustrated the fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson and was the illustrator for books such as Bush and Billabong: Australian Tales of Long Ago by Peter Paxton, in 1945. also doing further advertising work for theatre and for clothes. See David Buckman, Artists in Britain since 1945 Volume 2 pg 412 Hedi Schick, Austrian/British 1909-1999- Woman by a canal at dusk; gouache, 56x38cm: together with ten other drawings in open and ink watercolour and gouache by the same hand, to include wartime scenes, of refugees and figures studies, all signed and dated between 1939 and 1948, various sizes, 56x38cm., (max) (11) (unframed) (may be subject to Droit de Suite)