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June: Works on Paper

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Sheafer + King Modern is pleased to present June: Works on Paper auction. The auction features paintings and prints on paper including works by: Peter Gee, Willem de Looper, Victor Vasarely, Fernand Leger, Salvador Dali, Steve Redman, Steven Conant, Alexander Gorlizski, Erte, R.C. Gorman, James Bruch, Walter Stomps, Eugene Savage, Michio Takayama, Richard Kalina, Robert Natkin, Richard Lindner, etc. The auction also features a large number of paintings and prints by Candian artist, Walter Sorge (1931-2021). 
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Lot 159

Simon Bull "Sunlit Doorway I" Aquatint Print

Estimate: $40 - $200
Starting Bid
$20

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Aquatint print of a doorway leading into a courtyard, titled Sunlit Doorway I, by Simon Bull (British-American; born 1958). Signed, titled, and marked "H/C" for "Hors d'Commerce" lower edge.

 

Measurements: 30" W x 22" H (sheet); 23.25" W x 17.25" H (plate).

 

In house shipping available.

 

From the artist:

Simon Bull was born in Bedfordshire, England. The second of four children. His father, Ian Bull served as an officer in the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department of the British Army. Ian’s extensive military postings stationed the family around the world in Guyana, Hong Kong, Germany, and Northern Ireland. Simon went to boarding school in Yorkshire, attending Ripon Cathedral Choir School from 1965 to 1969 and in Surrey, at the Royal Russell School from 1969 to 1976. In 1976 he took a one-year Foundation course at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and went on to graduate in 1980 from Leeds Polytechnic with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art. He studied printmaking and Fine Art under Norman Webster and Norman Ackroyd RA.

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