Charles Saumarez Smith

Charles Saumarez Smith

I have always enjoyed the process of choosing works of art without knowing who they are by: the equivalent of blind tasting of wine. One is compelled to judge works only by what they look like, not by their associations.

I found myself using one criterion only in my selection: that is, would I consider giving the work house room? This limited the choice to works which shared an aesthetic with the artists I had invited to submit, who consisted exclusively of those whose works I have bought in the past. I realised, which I should already have known, that I like works which are small-scale and of slightly indeterminate age, sometimes figurative, sometimes decorative, and that I have not lost an interest in the English realist tradition and in portraiture after years of choosing works for the BP Portrait Award.

Akash Bhatt

6/1Wasteland II£550

Mira Bogicevic

6/2Kohlrabi and elastic band£1,100

Day Bowman

6/3Vacant lots II£600

6/4Vacant lots III£600

Lucy Brett

6/5Aisle£270

Candy Button

6/6The ghost of the costermonger£745

Ronald Gaines

6/7Blue window£475

Geoff Catlow

6/8The book of miles£595

Sarah Chamberlain

6/9Miniature still life£210

Philip Ciolina

6/10Reflection - blue room£550

6/11Reflection - fresco£1,600

Nicholas Cochrane

6/12Bearded man£1,750

Edmund de Waal

6/13Rescript£8,400

6/14Stet #14£7,600

Gabriela Denny Segura

6/15Bee£320

Arturo Di Stefano

6/16The four quartets: old stone£1,940

6/17The four quartets: shirt of flame£1,940

6/18The four quartets: now the night falls£1,940

Chris Dunseath

6/19Self portrait£2,000

Roy Eastland

6/20Arromanches£600

Michael Edser

6/21Beachboy and driftwood, Sri Lanka£950

Philip Eglin

6/22Lithophane Madonna£6,500

6/2357 varieties Madonna£6,000

6/24Madonna and child£6,500

6/25Poppadom Madonna£1,800

John Goto

6/26Lincoln Cathedral, 1280 - study£995

6/27Great Sturton, 1348 - study£995

6/28Newstead Abbey, 1539 - study£995

6/29Belvoir Castle, 1816 - study£995

6/30Normanton Church, 1829 - study£995

6/31Southwell Minster, 1486 - study£995

David Hamilton

6/32Four explosions and a burning descent£600

6/33Creeping barrage, standing trees£500

Lesley E Hicks

6/34Rooftops, Fez£400

Margaret Knott

6/35Cornish landscape£450

Michael Lawton

6/36Self portrait£550

Christopher Le Brun RA

6/37On the journey£600

6/38Setting out£600

6/39Page£600

6/40The day£600

Sophie Levi

6/41Sotheran's Antiquarian Book Shop, London£450

Simon Lewty

6/42The middle of the day£1,400

6/4313.5.05£1,200

6/44Entrant£950

6/45Ancestral margin£950

David Lockett

6/46Evening, London Docklands£850

Jenny Martin

6/47Tea trader, Jodhpur£325

Hylton Nel

6/48World still turns£2,000

6/49Gay bishops£2,000

6/50Seated figure£1,500

6/51Man sitting on boot£2,000

6/52Rain creature£2,000

6/53Cardinal Napier£750

Humphrey Ocean RA

6/54From this we can tell - plaza£940

6/55From this we can tell - eleven£940

6/56From this we can tell - dog£940

6/57From this we can tell - electra£940

Julian Penberthy

6/58Vase vanitas£375

6/59Falling vase£375

Jenny Robinson

6/60Gasometer (small)£350

Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell

6/61We are coming home£625

Patrick Semple

6/62Scalpellum Phallusis Phylum: Fabrilis Class: Arma Order: Sacramenta£320

Emma Smith

6/63The wounded soldier£580

Marie Styles

6/64Figure, eating£495

Charlotte Verity

6/65Cup£300

6/66Lucie Rie pot£300

6/67After dark, tree£300

6/68After dark, block£300

Amanda Wallwork

6/69Thirty three£600

Toby Wiggins

6/70Cityscape - towers£950

Susan Angharad Williams

6/71Still life with artichoke£2,500

Verdi Yahooda

6/72Game without rules, no. 1£412

6/73Game without rules, no. 2£412

6/74Game without rules, no. 3£412

6/75Game without rules, no. 4£412

6/76Thinking of ... Man Ray£530

6/77Thinking of ... anyone and everyone£575

 

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