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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £100 - £200

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) THE PARASOL signed L Bulmer lower right; inscribed Artists Proof lower left screenprint in colours on paper 51 x 41cm; 20 x 16in 69 x 56cm; 27 x 22in (mount) Exhibited London, New Arts Centre

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) FIGURES IN THE ORNAMENTAL GARDEN signed L Bulmer lower right oil on canvas 76 x 101.5cm; 30 x 40in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) THE PICNIC, BENACRE, EAST SUFFOLK oil on board 46 x 51cm; 18 x 20in 58.5 x 63cm; 23 x 25in (framed)

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) THE WATER MEADOW signed L Bulmer lower left oil on canvas 76 x 101.5cm; 30 x 40in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) THE DINGHY, RINSHOLT oil on board 51 x 76cm; 20 x 30in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £150 - £200

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE oil on card 41 x 50.5cm; 16 x 20in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) TREES, LAKE AND HILLS oil on board 41 x 50.5cm; 16 x 20in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE WITH TENT oil on board 40.5 x 50cm; 16 x 20in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £300 - £400

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) GRAVESTONES signed L Bulmer lower left; inscribed with the artist's address LUCAN PLACE / CHELSEA / SW3 on a label on the reverse oil on board 38 x 61cm; 19 x 24in 51 x 74cm; 20 x 29in (framed)

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £150 - £250

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) STUDY OF A MODEL IN THE STUDIO oil on board 43 x 35cm; 17 x 13 3/4in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) SOUTHWOLD HARBOUR IN THE EVENING signed L Bulmer lower right oil on board 50.5 x 50.5cm; 16 x 20in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) AFTER THE BATH oil on board 40.5 x 53cm; 16 x 21in 54 x 67cm; 21 1/4 x 26 1/4in (framed)

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) THE RUG signed L Bulmer lower right oil on the artist's prepared muslin-covered board 50 x 61cm; 19 3/4 x 24in 61 x 71.5cm; 24 x 28 1/4in (framed) Exhibited London, Messums, From City to Sea: Lionel Bulmer & Margaret Green, Selected Works from the Studio Estate, 2002

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £500 - £700

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) INTERIOR, SHELLAND signed, titled and inscribed with the artist's address L BULMER / 3 CURRAN STUDIOS / LUCAN PLACE / SW3 / SHELLAND on the reverse oil on the artist's prepared muslin-covered board 76 x 101.5cm; 30 x 40in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £250 - £350

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) SCENE WITH KINGFISHER AND TABLECLOTH oil on board 51.5 x 61cm; 20 1/4 x 24in unframed

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) LIONEL BULMER (LOTS 40-55) Introduction Lionel Bulmer’s coastal views of summer on the Suffolk coast came to define his career. His impressionistic style was ideally suited to evoking the realism of a hot summer's day on the sand dunes. The critic Ian Collins noted of Bulmer’s work: ‘the season appears to be one of permanent summer.’ The son of an architect, Bulmer's studies at Clapham School of Art were interrupted by being conscripted at the outbreak of the Second World War. On being de-mobbed he studied at the Royal College of Art, at that time relocated in Ambleside in the Lake District, where he met fellow artist and life partner to be Margaret Green (see lots 56-67). When the RCA returned to Kensington Bulmer and Green were taught by, among others, Ruskin Spear and Carel Weight. When Green received an RCA travel scholarship the couple embarked on a tour of discovery, painting their way through France and Ireland for the best part of a year. On their return to London they settled in Chelsea, Bulmer taught at Kingston School of Art while Green taught at Walthamstow School of Art and they both exhibited at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club. Tiring of the austerity and smog of post-War London they sought out life in the countryside. Initially they lived above a boat house in Littlehampton, on the Sussex coast, but soon moved to an ancient thatched cottage surrounded by run down gardens in Shelland, near Stowmarket, Suffolk, which they lovingly restored. From there they set out on their frequent painting expeditions to the coastal communities of Southwold and Walberswick. Untouched by heavy industry, the area represented a rural idyll that was to become the central motif of Bulmer’s work. Popular since the 18th century as a destination for seawater swimming, and following in the footsteps of the painter Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942), Bulmer was drawn to recording beach scenes and bathers. Steer had made the East Coast his painting ground after returning from studying on the Continent and brought Impressionist painting to England. Bulmer’s pointillist style reflects both Steer's influence and also more directly that of the Neo-Impressionists, Georges Seurat (1859-1891) in particular. LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) TWO WOMEN READING ON THE SOFA oil on canvas 38.5 x 61cm; 15 x 24in unframed

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  • Lionel Bulmer,  Interior with Yellow Cat 
    Nov. 27, 2024

    Lionel Bulmer,  Interior with Yellow Cat 

    Est: £500 - £700

    Lionel Bulmer,  British 1919–1992 -  Interior with Yellow Cat;  acrylic on board, titled on the reverse and with inscribed label with artist's name attached to the reverse, 75.6 x 101 cm (ARR) 

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  • Lionel Bulmer,  Figure in landscape 
    Nov. 27, 2024

    Lionel Bulmer,  Figure in landscape 

    Est: £300 - £400

    Lionel Bulmer,  British 1919-1992 -  Figure in landscape;  oil on board, signed lower right 'L Bulmer', 40.5 x 50.5 cm (ARR)  Note:  inscribed with number on the reverse 'LB 647' 

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  • Lionel Bulmer (1919 - 1992) "Beach Scene"
    Nov. 14, 2024

    Lionel Bulmer (1919 - 1992) "Beach Scene"

    Est: €400 - €600

    Colourful Beach scene painted by Suffolk artist Lionel Bulmer (1919 - 1992) with oil on board. He drew and painted throughout his conscription to the army during WWII. On his return he was accepted by a Royal College of Art. Special subject was Suffolk landscape. Showcased at Leicester Galleries, Royal Academy, New English Art Club (NEAC), Royal Watercolour Society. 59.0 x 49.0 cm

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  • § Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)
    Oct. 25, 2024

    § Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)

    Est: £600 - £800

    § Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) Golden Morning, Southwold signed 'L Bulmer' (lower right) oil on canvas 76 x 101cm Provenance: Collection of the late Samuel Alper, OBE (1924-2002)

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) FIVE SKETCHBOOKS BOOKS, THREE CONTAINING BETWEEN CIRCA 50-60 SKETCHES DATING FROM THE ARTIST'S TIME AT 3 ELM PARK GARDEN, LONDON, SW10, SUBJECTS RANGING FROM FIGURE, NUDE AND PORTRAIT STUDIES, COASTAL SCENES, INCLUDING FAIRGROUNDS AND LOCAL LONDON SITES, INCLUDING CADOGAN PIER, CHELSEA, TOGETHER WITH TWO FURTHER SKETCHBOOKS ONE WITH 5 WATERCOLOURS OF SOUTHWALD AND SANDRINGHAM AND THE OTHER WITH APPROXIMATELY 30 DRAWINGS AND 1 WATERCOLOUR OF FIGURES ON THE BEACH AND COASTAL VIEWS mostly pencil, some watercolour and pen and ink sizes ranging from 26 x 21cm; 10 1/4 x 8 1/4in to 18 x 11.5cm; 7 x 4 1/2in (5) four with the artist's estate numbers LB 1150, LB 1153, LB 1159 & LB1146 on the inside leaves

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) INTERIOR, SHELLAND signed L Bulmer lower right; signed and inscribed with the artist's address 3 Curran Studios / Lucan Place / SW3 on the reverse oil on the artist's prepared canvas board 91 x 122cm; 35 3/4 x 48in unframed with the artist's estate number LB 1014 on the reverse

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) LANDSCAPE, SHELLAND, SUFFOLK signed with initials and and indistinctly dated 6... lower left; signed and inscribed with the artist's address 3 CURRAN / STUDIOS / LUCAN PLACE / SW3 and dated 23.7.57 on the reverse oil on the artist's prepared canvas board 91 x 137.5cm; 35 3/4 x 54in unframed with the artist's estate number LB 1019 on the reverse

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) LANDSCAPE AT SHELLAND, SUFFOLK signed L Bulmer lower right oil on the artist's prepared canvas board 91 x 122cm; 35 3/4 x 48in 104 x 134cm; 41 x 52 3/4in (framed) with the artist's estate number LB 1035 on the reverse

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £100 - £150

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) (i) LADY SEATED ON THE GRASS; (ii) BY THE SUMMER HOUSE (ii) signed L Bulmer lower right both oil on board (i) 34 x 25.5cm; 13 1/2 x 10in (ii) 35 x 25cm; 13 3/4 x 10in both unframed (2) with the artist's estate numbers (i) LB 512 & (ii) LB 480 on the reverse

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £350 - £450

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) BRIDAL PATH signed, titled and inscribed with the artist's address LIONEL BULMER / BRIDAL PATH / 3 CURRAN STUDIOS SW3 / LUCAN PLACE on the reverse oil on the artist's prepared canvas board 91 x 122cm; 35 3/4 x 48in unframed with the artist's estate number LB 1015 on the reverse

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £100 - £150

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) (i) LANDSCAPE WITH TREES; (ii) COASTAL INLET (i) oil on panel (ii) acrylic on thick card (i) 22 x 25.5cm; 8 1/2 x 10in (ii) 24 x 34cm; 9 1/2 x 13 1/2in both unframed (2) with the artist's estate numbers (i) LB 250 & (ii) LB 513 on the reverse

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) THE BRIDAL PATH signed L.Bulmer lower left oil on board 50 x 40.5cm; 19 3/4 x 16in unframed with the artist's estate number LB 661 on the reverse Provenance with The New Art Centre, London

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) LADIES IN A SUMMER GARDEN oil on board 40 x 51cm; 15 3/4 x 20in unframed with the artist's estate number LB6 52 on the reverse

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) FIGURES ON A COASTAL PATH oil on board 50.5 x 60.5cm; 20 x 23 3/4in unframed with the artist's estate number LB 743 on the reverse

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £150 - £250

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) AFTERNOON NAP signed L Bulmer lower left oil on board 41 x 40.5cm; 16 1/4 x 16in unframed with the artist's estate number LB 010 on a label on the reverse

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  • ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) Lionel Bulmer (lots 158-169) Introduction Lionel Bulmer’s coastal views of summer on the Suffolk coast came to define his career. His impressionistic style was ideally suited to evoking the realism of a hot summers day on the sand dunes. The critic Ian Collins noted of Bulmer’s work: ‘the season appears to be one of permanent summer.’ The son of an architect, Bulmer's studies at Clapham School of Art were interrupted by being conscripted at the outbreak of the Second World War. On being de-mobbed he studied at the Royal College of Art, at that time relocated in Ambleside in the Lake District, where he met fellow artist and life partner to be Margaret Green. When the RCA returned to Kensington Bulmer and Green were taught by, among others, Ruskin Spear and Carel Weight. When Green received an RCA travel scholarship the couple embarked on a tour of discovery, painting their way through France and Italy for the best part of a year. On their return to London they settled in Chelsea, Bulmer taught at Kingston School of Art while Green taught at Walthamstow School of Art and they both exhibited at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club. Tiring of the austerity and smog of post-war London they sought out life in the countryside. Initially they lived above a boat house in Littlehampton, on the Sussex coast, but soon moved to an ancient thatched cottage surrounded by run down gardens in Shelland, near Stowmarket, Suffolk (lots 166-168), which they lovingly restored. From there they set out on their frequent painting expeditions to the coastal communities of Southwold and Walberswick. Untouched by heavy industry, the area represented a rural an idyll that was to become the central motif of Bulmer’s work. Popular since the 18th century as a destination for seawater swimming, and following in the footsteps of the painter Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942), Bulmer was drawn to recording beach scenes and bathers (lot 160 & 169). Steer had made the East Coast his painting ground after returning from studying on the Continent and brought Impressionist painting to England. Bulmer’s pointillist style reflects both Steer's influence and also more directly that of the Neo-Impressionists, Georges Seurat (1859-1891) in particular. LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) COUPLE BY A TERRACE signed L.Bulmer lower right oil on board 61 x 61cm; 24 x 24in unframed with the artist's estate number LB 781 on the reverse

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  • Lionel Bulmer,  Garden Chairs and an Umbrella; 
    Sep. 11, 2024

    Lionel Bulmer,  Garden Chairs and an Umbrella; 

    Est: £400 - £600

    Lionel Bulmer,  British 1919–1992 -  Garden Chairs and an Umbrella;  oil on board, signed lower right 'L Bulmer', 23 x 33 cm (ARR)  Provenance:  with New Art Centre, London, stock no.1029/4 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame);  Paintings in Hospitals, London, cat. no.6634 

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  • ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)
    Apr. 09, 2024

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) 'Sea Defences' signed 'L Bulmer' l.r., oil on board 30 x 30.5cm Provenance: With Messum's Fine Art, London. Condition Report: Framed: 42 x 42cm Appears to be in good condition. Well presented and ready to hang. Not viewed under UV light, for a full report, please contact the department.

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  • ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)
    Apr. 09, 2024

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) 'The Footpath, Walberswick' signed 'L Bulmer' l.l., oil on board 30.5 x 30.5cm Provenance: With Messum's Fine Art, London. Condition Report: Framed: 41 x 41cm Appears to be in good condition. Well presented and ready to hang. Not examined under UV light, for a full report please contact the department.

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  • ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)
    Apr. 09, 2024

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) 'Beginning of the Beach' oil on board 30.5 x 30.5cm Provenance: With Messum's Fine Art, London. Condition Report: Framed: 42.5 x 42.5cm Appears to be in good condition. Well presented and ready to hang. Not examined under UV light, for a full report please contact the department.

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  • ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)
    Apr. 09, 2024

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) 'Water Tower, Sandringham' signed 'Bulmer' l.r., watercolour over pencil 16 x 22cm Provenance: With Messum's Fine Art, London. Condition Report: Framed: 39.5 x 44.5cm Appears to be in good condition. Well presented and ready to hang. Not viewed out of glazed frame.

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  • ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)
    Apr. 09, 2024

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ▲ Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) 'Riverside - Walberswick' oil on board 30.5 x 30.5cm Provenance: With Messum's Fine Art, London. Condition Report: Framed: 42 x 42cm In good condition and ready to hang. Not examined under UV light, for a full report please contact the department.

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  • λ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992), COUNTRYSIDE WALK
    Apr. 04, 2024

    λ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992), COUNTRYSIDE WALK

    Est: £600 - £800

    λ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)COUNTRYSIDE WALK Oil on board Signed (lower left)31 x 31cm (12 x 12 in.)Please note measurements do not include the frame unless otherwise stated. Lionel Bulmer and Margaret Green - one the most celebrated painting partnerships of the twentieth century, moved from their London home in the 1950s to live at Stowmarket, in rural West Suffolk and from there the beaches of Southwold, the sandy dunes and bathers at Walberswick became a key subject for them. The critic, Ian Collins, once wrote that in Bulmer's paintings 'the season appears to be one of permanent summer, and leisure is always in the air.' Indeed, it is this same sentiment in Bulmer's sun-filled paintings that is repeatedly witnessed in the art history of East Anglia, which has attracted artists from far and wide to live and work in the coastal communities that grew to rival the artist colonies of Newlyn and St Ives.

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  • λ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992), THE FOOTBRIDGE
    Apr. 04, 2024

    λ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992), THE FOOTBRIDGE

    Est: £600 - £800

    λ LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)THE FOOTBRIDGE Oil on board Signed (lower left)31 x 31cm (12 x 12 in.)Please note measurements do not include the frame unless otherwise stated. Lionel Bulmer and Margaret Green - one the most celebrated painting partnerships of the twentieth century, moved from their London home in the 1950s to live at Stowmarket, in rural West Suffolk and from there the beaches of Southwold, the sandy dunes and bathers at Walberswick became a key subject for them. The critic, Ian Collins, once wrote that in Bulmer's paintings 'the season appears to be one of permanent summer, and leisure is always in the air.' Indeed, it is this same sentiment in Bulmer's sun-filled paintings that is repeatedly witnessed in the art history of East Anglia, which has attracted artists from far and wide to live and work in the coastal communities that grew to rival the artist colonies of Newlyn and St Ives.

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  • • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £100 - £150

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) (i) INTERIOR WITH SNOW (ii) INTERIOR (i) oil on panel (ii) oil on board (i) 23 x 33.5cm; 9 x 13 1/4in (ii) 21 x 26.5cm; 8 1/4 x 10 1/2in (both unframed) (2)

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  • • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £150 - £250

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) TWO SKETCH BOOKS CONTAINING 25 SKETCHES INCLUDING FIGURES ON THE BEACH, BOATS MOORED ON THE SHORE AND VIEWS OF THE SEA FROM COASTAL VILLAGES, SOME WITH ARTIST'S ANNOTATIONS some pen and ink; some watercolour and oil both: 25 x 19.5cm / 9 3/4 x 7 3/4in (2)

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  • • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £150 - £250

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) TWO SKETCH BOOKS CONTAINING 112 SKETCHES INCLUDING BATHERS ON THE BEACH, SUNSET SERIES, VIEWS OF A GARDEN AND NUDE STUDIES, SOME WITH ARTIST'S ANNOTATIONS some pen and ink, some watercolour and wash the larger book 44.5 x 28cm/17 1/2 x 11in the smaller book 23 x 18cm/9 x 7in (2)

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  • • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £250 - £350

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) ON THE ARUN, WEST SUSSEX signed L Bulmer lower right oil on board 51 x 76cm; 20 x 29 3/4in (unframed)

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  • • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £400 - £600

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) LANDSCAPE AT SHELLAND, SUFFOLK signed L Bulmer lower left oil on board 90.5 x 120cm; 35 1/2 x 47 1/4in 105 x 135cm; 41 1/4 x 53in (framed)

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  • • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £250 - £350

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) HERME IN A GARDEN, ITALY signed and dated L Bulmer 57 lower right annotated and dated SEPT / 1957 on the reverse oil on the artist's prepared board 51 x 76cm / 20 x 30in

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  • • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £250 - £350

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) FIGURES ON A COASTAL PROMONTORY oil on board 51 x 76cm; 20 x 29 3/4in (unframed)

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  • • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992)

    Est: £150 - £250

    • LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) Lionel Bulmer (lots 159-166) Introduction Lionel Bulmer’s coastal views of summer on the Suffolk coast came to define his career. His impressionistic style was ideally suited to evoking the realism of a hot summers day on the sand dunes. The critic Ian Collins noted of Bulmer’s work: ‘the season appears to be one of permanent summer.’ The son of an architect, Bulmer's studies at Clapham School of Art were interrupted by being conscripted at the outbreak of the Second World War. On being de-mobbed he studied at the Royal College of Art, at that time relocated in Ambleside in the Lake District, where he met fellow artist and life partner to be Margaret Green. When the RCA returned to Kensington Bulmer and Green were taught by, among others, Ruskin Spear and Carel Weight. When Green received an RCA travel scholarship the couple embarked on a tour of discovery, painting their way through France and Italy for the best part of a year. On their return to London they settled in Chelsea, Bulmer taught at Kingston School of Art while Green taught at Walthamstow School of Art and they both exhibited at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club. Tiring of the austerity and smog of post-war London they sought out life in the countryside. Initially they lived above a boat house in Littlehampton, on the Sussex coast (lot 163), but soon moved to an ancient thatched cottage surrounded by run down gardens, near Stowmarket in rural Suffolk, which they lovingly restored and transformed over many years. From there they set out on their frequent painting expeditions to the coastal communities of Southwold and Walberswick. Untouched by heavy industry, the area represented a rural coastal idyll that was to become the central motif of Bulmer’s work (lot 159). Popular since the 18th century as a destination for seawater swimming, and following in the footsteps of the painter Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942), Bulmer was drawn to recording beach scenes and bathers (lots 164 & 165). Steer had made the East Coast his painting ground after returning from studying on the Continent and brought Impressionist painting to England. Bulmer’s pointillist style reflects both Steer's influence and also more directly that of the Neo-Impressionists, Georges Seurat (1859-1891) in particular. 159 LIONEL BULMER (BRITISH 1919-1992) CYCLING OVER SOUTHWOLD BRIDGE signed L Bulmer lower left oil on board 30 x 30 cm; 11 3/4 x 11 3/4in (unframed)

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