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Lotte Reiniger greeting Dido Freire during a visit of Jean Renoir and Freire to the Abbey Art Centre, c. 1952-57
Informal group photograph at the Abbey Art Centre. Jean Renoir stands closest to the camera, back turned, looking on as his second wife Dido Freire is greeted by Lotte Reiniger (who wears a long string of beads); the car (possibly a taxi cab) by…
Lotte Reiniger working at a table outdoors in the garden of the Abbey Art Centre, c. 1952-63
Shadow-puppet-maker and animator Lotte Reiniger is seen working at a table, outdoors in the garden, at the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet. She is seen cutting out a figure in black paper. A small, hand-painted toy theatre stands on a low brick wall to…
Memorial relief for Hall of Honour for those who fell in the First World War, Forst an der Weinstrasse, 1920s, by William F. C. Ohly
Large stone relief sculpture of Christ blessing two kneeling soldiers.
My Land, 1951, by Helen Marshall
Unsigned. Inscribed and dated in black ink recto beneath image: ‘My Land. oil & wax crayon on paper / 38 x 26 / London 1951 / Thames Ditton’.
Photograph of a Royal Mail van parked outside the Abbey Art Centre gates, 1950
Photograph showing the Royal Mail van at the gates of the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet. The van is marked 'Barnet' on the door. A sign reading 'Abbey Art Centre' is mounted on the vine-covered wall to the left while the street number '89' is just…
Port in Connemara (later known as Haven), July 1952, by Helen Marshall
Unsigned. Dated in oil paint recto lower right: ‘7/52’; inscribed and dated in black marker by Phillip Martin verso: ‘40 [scratched out and replaced with 4] / Helen Marshall / Port in Connemara / 7/1952 / 74 1/2 x 50 / Huile / Colln de l’Artiste’"
Relief, Hauptportal Friedhofshalle Friesenheim (Reliefs, main portal, Friesenheim cemetery hall), c. 1926–27, by William F. C. Ohly
Stone relief carvings for either side of the main portal of the cemetery chapel, depicting a classically-robed man in a ploughed field, on one side sowing seed and on the other side reaping the harvest with a small scythe. Above him are symbols of a…
Rooster, 1950, by Helen Marshall
Unsigned. Inscribed in black pen below image on sketchbook page lower left: ’Rooster’; inscribed again and dated lower right below image: ‘1950 / 29 1/2 x 21 1/2’.