Jane Sercombe Lewis Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Jane Sercombe Lewis Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 01, 2024
Jane Lewis, British (B. 1953), The Masquerader, 1999, pastel on board, 20 1/4"H x 11 3/4"W(sight), 25 3/4"H x 17"W(frame)
Est: $500 - $700
Jane Lewis British, (B. 1953) The Masquerader, 1999 pastel on board Signed and dated lower right. Exhibited: Portal Gallery, London Biography from JaneLewisArtist.com: Jane Sercombe Lewis quietly but obsessively produces work which is oblivious to fashion, trends or movements. Known principally as a painter, she is also an accomplished draughtswoman and printmaker. Her painting technique is in part influenced by the artists of the early Italian and Northern European Renaissance and visits to Italy to study the ancient Roman frescoes at Pompeii, Herculaneum and Ostia have had a profound effect. Her response to this ancient art is one of recognition of its startlingly contemporary resonance - a modernity of expression and application of paint which speaks directly across the centuries and which finds echoes in her own work. But while Jane's own working methods and materials could be seen as traditional, the subject matter is wide-ranging, challenging and of its time. Her aim is to produce technically immaculate paintings and graphic works which often contain subversive imagery, a paradox that at first seduces and then challenges the viewer. The human figures, animals and objects depicted convey a stillness and impression of time arrested - part of a personal, often surreal, narrative expressing an inner world and its relationship with an outer reality. More recently Jane's work has been concerned with the tragic plight of animals in the modern world, and its direct relationship to the ongoing destruction of our environment and its sentient inhabitants. The moral imperative of animal rights has led to her producing a series of images entitled Earthlings and also to a personal commitment to the ethics of veganism. Winner of the Slade Prize on graduation from the Slade School of Art UCL, on leaving college Jane was represented by Carol Mann, who was at that time an art historian and artist's agent (later an author of books on art and on women's politics). As a young artist, Jane showed regularly at the Curwen Gallery and other London galleries, worked for a while as a scenic artist for BBC Television, and went on to become a full-time assistant lecturer at the Slade School. She also taught at Watford, Harrow, Richmond (Surrey) and Leeds Colleges of Art and was a visiting lecturer at Reading University and Byam Shaw School of Art. An early turning point in her painting career was participating in the ground-breaking Women's Images of Men exhibition at the ICA in London in 1980. Showing in the exhibition's sequel Pandora's Box while at the same time pursuing a 12 month residency with Kent Opera in 1985, gave her work the wider exposure that enabled her to paint full-time and exhibit with the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery. In 1989 Kent Opera commissioned and published three paintings to commemorate their 20th Anniversary. She was later awarded a Fellowship in Drawing by the Henry Moore Foundation which attracted the attention of the Portal Gallery in London, where Jane exhibited from 1993 to 2013. More recently she has received funding from Arts Council England and the Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust, and was commissioned by Standard Chartered Bank for their corporate collection. Jane's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the UK and also internationally. Paintings and prints are in a number of public collections and numerous private collections and she now shows regularly with the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery in Vienna, as well as occasionally exhibiting independently by opening her work-place Solitary Space Studio to collectors. Articles about Jane's work and reproductions of her images have appeared in art catalogues, books and periodicals which include The Sciences/USA, Mslexia Magazine/UK, Univers des Arts/France, Nouveau Magazine/Netherlands, Uptown Magazine/UK, Pastel Journal/USA, Faber & Faber, Paladin Books and most significantly Bloodaxe Books, who have used 22 paintings as covers for their poetry publications. She has written articles for The Artist, Artists & Illustrators, Photoshop Creative, The Jackdaw and Vegan Life magazines and been featured in online magazines Lavender Review, Lucky Compiler and Visionarios as well as being interviewed for a number of Blogs. Her work is extensively featured in A Singular Vision - Fifty Years of British Painting at The Portal Gallery (Prestel Books) and her early work and biography is in part included in Kiss My Art by Nicholas Treadwell. Jane has published limited edition prints independently and with Obsession Publishing UK and Christies Contemporary Art and is listed in: "Who's Who in Art" 31st edition onwards (Hilmarton Manor Press); "Dictionary of International Biography" 32nd edition onwards (Cambridge-Melrose Press); "The Cambridge Blue Book" since 2005, and "World Who's Who of Women" from 2009.
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 25, 2024
† Jane Lewis (b. 1953), 'Diamonds', signed and dated 'Jane Lewis '00' (lower left), pastel on paper, 40 x 19 cm, framed and glazed 55 x 34 cm
Est: £200 - £300
† Jane Lewis (b. 1953), 'Diamonds', signed and dated 'Jane Lewis '00' (lower left), pastel on paper, 40 x 19 cm, framed and glazed 55 x 34 cm
Dawsons Auctioneers
Jun. 06, 2023
JANE LEWIS, BRITISH 1953 - SEKHMET I, 2002; CONTE DRAWING ON PAPER, SIGNED WITH INITIALS AND DA
Est: £300 - £500
Jane Lewis, British 1953 - Sekhmet I, 2002; conte drawing on paper, signed with initials and dated lower left 'JL 02', titled to frame on the reverse 'Sekhmet I', 21.5 x 14.8 cm: together with 2 digital prints by the same artist, the first entitled 'Chimera', 2008, 44.5 x 32.5 cm, the second 14 x 16 cm (3) (ARR) Provenance: with Portal Gallery, London (according to the labels affixed to the first two works); private collection and thence by descent
Roseberys
Mar. 24, 2021
JANE LEWIS (BRITISH B.1953)
Est: £80 - £100
JANE LEWIS (BRITISH B.1953) Papageno signed Jane Lewis (lower right) numbered 84/100 silk screen printed in colours 97 x 38.5 cm
Chiswick Auctions
Apr. 28, 2020
§ JANE LEWIS (British, b.1953)
Est: £400 - £600
JANE LEWIS (British, b.1953) ‘Mask and Veil’ & ‘Veiled Angel’, pair, oil on canvas, both signed, 2000, 440 x 340mm or the reverse ARR
Chiswick Auctions
Sep. 11, 2019
Jane Lewis (b 1953)
Est: £350 - £450
Jane Lewis (b 1953) - 'The Magic Flute', oil on canvas laid on board, signed lower right and inscribed to edge and dated 1991, 46 x 35 cm ARR may be applicable
Andrew Smith & Son
Sep. 11, 2019
Jane Lewis (b 1953)
Est: £300 - £400
Jane Lewis (b 1953) - 'Patinated head II', oil on canvas laid on board, signed lower left and inscribed to edge and dated 1988, 40.5 x 40.5 cm ARR may be applicable
Andrew Smith & Son
Sep. 26, 2018
Jane Lewis, British b.1953- The Magic Flute, 1995; oil on canvas, signed, 7
Est: £250 - £350
Jane Lewis, British b.1953- The Magic Flute, 1995; oil on canvas, signed, 77x51cm, (ARR)Provenance: Portal Gallery, London, according to the label attached to the reverse
Roseberys
Jul. 26, 2018
Jane Sercombe Lewis (British, b.1953), 'Papageno'
Est: £50 - £100
Jane Sercombe Lewis (British, b.1953), 'Papageno' study of a boy playing a flute, signed print 98/235, 60cm x 38cm After studying at Hornsey College of Art and later The Slade, where she subsequently taught, Jane Lewis has exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery (London), The Institute of Contemporary Art (London), The Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol) and Whitechapel Art Gallery (London)..
Ewbank's
Jul. 26, 2018
Jane Sercombe Lewis (British, b.1953), portrait of
Est: £50 - £80
Jane Sercombe Lewis (British, b.1953), portrait of a lady wearing a theatrical mask, print signed in pencil, 9/100, 43cm x 25cm After studying at Hornsey College of Art and later The Slade, where she subsequently taught, Jane Lewis has exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery (London), The Institute of Contemporary Art (London), The Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol) and Whitechapel Art Gallery (London)..
Ewbank's