Null TWO BRITISH WAR MEDALS 1939-45 AND TWO DEFENCE MEDALS, one war medal presen…

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TWO BRITISH WAR MEDALS 1939-45 AND TWO DEFENCE MEDALS, one war medal presented to 257458 JJ MCNANAMARA. (4)

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TWO BRITISH WAR MEDALS 1939-45 AND TWO DEFENCE MEDALS, one war medal presented to 257458 JJ MCNANAMARA. (4)

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Estim. 150 - 225 GBP

Albert Ebert, "Die Gespensterlektüre" young man in a dark interior reading a book, surrounded by two small devils, see catalogue raisonné Brade/Stula R 23, etching printed in brown, signed and dated in lead below the image on the right "A. Ebert 1964", numbered "18/20" on the left and titled "Die Gespensterlektüre" in the centre, monogrammed and dated "AE (19)64" in the plate, browned, matted and framed behind glass. Artist information: German painter and graphic artist (1907 Halle/Saale to 1976 Halle/Saale), considered the most important naive artist of the GDR, 1921 began an unfinished apprenticeship as a bricklayer, then worked as an occasional and unskilled labourer until 1939, including 1928-34 as a self-employed wool merchant and as a furniture carrier, construction worker, market assistant etc., 1939-45 military service in the 2. After being wounded and captured, he spent time in a military hospital, where he discovered painting as a vocation, 1946-47 studied at the "Burg Giebichenstein" art academy in Halle under Charles Crodel and Waldemar Grzimek, largely self-taught, from 1947 construction worker and 1948 temporary trainee in restoration techniques at the Moritzburg State Gallery in Halle, 1948 first exhibition participation with the artists' association "Die Fähre" and freelance painter until 1951, from 1951 member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR, 1951-52 restoration course with Kurt Bunge, 1954-56 worked as a stoker at Burg Giebichenstein and construction worker in Halle, from 1956 freelance in Halle with the support of friends and a scholarship from the CDU (GDR), 1973 honoured with the Art Prize of the City of Halle, took part in the art exhibitions of the GDR from 1958-77, source: Vollmer, Eisold "Artists in the GDR", picture atlas "Art in the GDR" and Wikipedia.

Estim. 100 - 150 GBP

Max Ernst, "Tout en un plus deux" Strongly abstracted depiction of two birds, see catalogue raisonné Spies/Leppien 210, etching on laid reddish Japan paper, 1971, signed "Max Ernst" in pencil lower right and inscribed "e. a." left, very good condition, slightly soiled and remnants of old mounting on the reverse, image dimensions approx. 41 x 29.1 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 56.5 x 37.2 cm. Artist information: actually Maximilian Maria Ernst, German painter, stage designer, stage designer. German painter, stage designer, graphic artist, draughtsman, writer and sculptor (1891 Brühl/Rhineland to 1976 Paris), 1910-14 studied philosophy, psychology and art history at the University of Bonn, 1911 friendship with August Macke, 1912 self-taught turn to painting, 1913 first participation in the exhibition of the Rhenish Expressionists in Bonn and in the "First German Autumn Salon" in Herwarth Walden's Berlin gallery "Der Sturm", 1919 founding member of the Cologne Dada group with Johannes Baargeld and Hans Arp, Member of the artists' association "Das Junge Rheinland", moved to Paris in 1922, joined the Surrealists around André Breton, represented in the "Salon des Indépendants" in 1923, first studio in Paris in 1925, defamed as "degenerate" in Germany from 1933-45, temporarily interned as a German in France from 1939, 1941 fled to the USA with his future wife Peggy Guggenheim, 1946 moved to Sedona in the Arizona desert, 1948 American citizenship, 1953 returned to France, 1954 represented at the Venice Biennale, from 1955 country residence in Huismes, 1958 French citizenship, from 1964 regularly exhibited in France. Citizenship, from 1964 regular residence in the south of France, source: Vollmer and Wikipedia.

Estim. 200 - 300 GBP

An India General Service Medal 1908 with two clasps in a group of three to an early WW2 casualty of the BEF in France, consisting of: India General Service Medal 1908 with two clasps ‘Mohmand 1933’ and ‘North West Frontier 1935’, named to: 2319994 Sgln J J Kelly R Signals (the 2nd clasp loose on the ribbon); 1939-1945 Star and War Medal 1939-45, these two un-named as issued. Joseph James Kelly was born in 1911 at Crowthorne, Berkshire. A pre-war regular soldier, he was serving with the 4th Divisional Signals in France when he died of wounds on 20 May 1940 during the withdrawal to Dunkirk. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Dunkirk Memorial. With copy of medal roll for the IGS confirming the clasps, a biographical note and copy Commonwealth War Graves Commission grave registration. Medals mounted for display. Good Very Fine (GVF) condition.

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