Group of Three Landscape Works on Paper – 19th & 20th C. (Auction 2026-06-05, Lot 24G)

$321.25

(1) Anonymous (active XX century). “Glesver” charcoal and white chalk on paper, n.d; (2) After Jozef Brandt (Polish, 1841-1915). “A Hunting Party” photogravure on paper, n.d. Published by Gebbie & Co; (3) Adrian Keith Graham Hill (British, 1895-1977). “Ship Building Rye” pen and ink drawing on paper, 1923. Signed, titled, and dated at lower right.

A gathering of three landscape works on paper, each spun from a different hand and a different latitude. The first, signed “Glesver” by an anonymous artist active in the twentieth century, is rendered in charcoal heightened with white chalk, almost certainly a view of Glesvaer along the rugged Norwegian coast south of Bergen, where fishing skerries and low islands meet the open sea. The second, after the Polish painter Jozef Brandt (1841-1915), is a photogravure titled “A Hunting Party,” reproducing one of Brandt’s characteristic equestrian compositions: a hunter pauses among his horses on a windswept steppe, the figures pulled forward in finely worked tone while the foreground grasses dissolve into atmospheric light. The plate was issued by Gebbie and Co. of Philadelphia, a leading late nineteenth-century publisher of fine photogravure portfolios drawing on the European salon painters. The third is the work of Adrian Keith Graham Hill (British, 1895-1977), a pen and ink drawing titled “Ship Building Rye,” dated 1923 and signed, titled, and dated at lower right. Hill, a veteran of the First World War who became a pioneer of art therapy and a familiar face on early BBC television, captures the timbered slipways and working hulls of the Sussex coastal town in confident, draughtsmanlike line. Together the three sheets trace a quiet itinerary across northern landscapes, from the Norwegian shore to the Mazovian plain to an English harbor between the wars.

Provenance: private Santa Fe, New Mexico USA collection; ex-private Maine, USA collection

Condition: Good. Adrian Hill drawing has foxing to paper and Hill and Brandt works have discoloring to paper. Some chips, small tears, and minor losses to edges of Brandt. Light age wear to “Glesver.” Otherwise, all three have clear imagery and good detail. Both drawings are mounted in custom mattes.