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This is the first original Beryl Cook painting we have sold and it
will make an important addition to the strong group of paintings by major 20th Century
British artists like Robert Lenkiewicz, Fred Yates and Dorothea Sharp, all of whom
have a connection to the West Country and all of whom are represented in our forthcoming
sale.
We have sold prints by Beryl Cook but, since Cook died, her work has not really ‘taken
off’ and two major paintings, Rialto Bridge, Venice and The
Vicars’s Tea Party, that were both offered in London, each just
made their reserves at £20,000 and £25,000 respectively.
The painting offered here, Mop Heads, which is typically
iconic, jolly and animated, has an estimate of £15,000-20,000 and will go under
the hammer on Thursday 23 April. It is a great opportunity to buy a Beryl Cook original
which, I think, would be a great addition to an ambitious private collection
Beryl Cook, original oil painting called 'Mop Heads'.
Estimate £15,000-20,000 for sale 23 April 2009.
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Daniel Goddard is a Director of Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood. He is also Head of Picture Department.
Daniel Goddard attended The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the US Military Academy at West Point and in 1982 was commissioned into the Queen's Regiment serving in Northern Ireland, The Falklands, Canada and the UK.
In 1988, he travelled to Auckland, New Zealand, to play rugby and attended The Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. On his return to the family home in East Devon, Daniel joined Lawrence's in Crewkerne (Somerset) as a porter and progressed to valuation and rostrum work.
In 1996, Daniel joined Bearne's to head the Works of Art Department and, having in the meantime gained an Open University degree in Art History and Humanities, became Head of the Picture Department. He continues to run this busy department in the merged firm of Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood.
Daniel Goddard has been a director of the firm since 1999 and is an experienced valuer with a broad range of knowledge and specialist expertise in paintings.
He has recently catalogued and organised two major sales of paintings by Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), which raised in excess of £3 million.
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