Pair of Comedy Mask Fragments, after an unknown painting by Apelles. Oil on canvas 16"x14" (40.6x35.5cm) each. Stretched circa late 1980s, reworked 2018/19.
Fragments from "Aphrodite Emerges from the Waves", I, II, & III, after Apelles. Oil on canvas. Canvas dimensions 36x42 in. (91.5x107cm) each. Stretched early 1990s, completed circa 2013.
"Arms & Armies" I to IV or Fragments from "The Battle of Issus" after Apelles. Oil on canvas. Canvas dimensions 40x24 in. (101.5x61cm) each.
Completed mid 1990s.
Fragments from "The Labours of Heracles", I, II, & III, after an unknown painting by Apelles. Oil on canvas. Canvas dimensions 24x40 in. (61x101.5cm) each. Stretched early 1990s, completed circa 2014.
Details of Fragments from "Ganymede", I, & III, after Apelles. Oil on canvas. Stretched early 1990s. Works in progress.
Left: detail of Fragments from "The Nurture of Dionysus" II, after an unknown painting by Apelles. Oil on canvas. Stretched early 1990s. Work in progress. Right: "The R.T. painting." Oil on canvas, 18x24 in. (45.6x60.9 cm). Completed circa mid 1990s.
Fragments from "Dionysus on a Surf-Ski" I - VI, after an unknown painting by Apelles. Oil on canvas. Stretched
as a single canvas early 1990s. Cut up and restretched circa mid 1990s. Oil
on canvas, 16x14 in. (40.6x35.5 cm).
Fragments from The Battle of Issus I - V, after Apelles. Oil on canvas. Stretched early 1990s. Oil
on canvas, 14x12in. (35.5x30 cm).
Oil studies for Fragment paintings. Left: Pergamon Fragment. 14x16 in. (35.5x40.6 cm).
Center left: Beach Fragment. 8x12 in. (20x30 cm). Center right: Drowning Boy
Fragment. 14x16 in. (35.5x40.6 cm). Right: Niobe Fragment. 14x16 in.
(35.5x40.6 cm). All completed circa early 1990s.
Below are samples from the Fragment
sketchbooks - studies for potential Fragment paintings, and some
classical drawings on the Fragment theme.
Left: Aphrodite on a surfboard, after an ancient
sculpture.
Center left: Poseidon, after an ancient vase painting. Center right: Jason
disgorged from the dragon, after an ancient vase painting. Right: Oedipus
and the Sphinx, after an ancient vase painting. All ink and watercolour on
paper. Whole sheet size 11.7x8.3 inches (297x210mm) completed circa early 1990s.
Left: Heracles and the Gorgon, after an ancient vase
painting.
Center left: Jason disgorged by the Dragon, after an ancient vase painting. Center right:
Dionysus as a Bather, after an ancient sculpture. Right: Hermes and the
Infant Dionysus, after an ancient sculpture. All ink and watercolour on
paper. Whole sheet size 11.7x8.3 inches (297x210mm) completed circa early 1990s.
Left: The Raising of Lazarus, after an ancient
painting.
Center left: Dionysus Reclining, after an ancient sculpture. Center right:
Bather with a beach ball, after an ancient sculpture. Right: Bather, after an ancient sculpture. All completed circa 1990s.
Left: Bather, after an ancient
painting.
Center left: Bather in Bath, after an ancient sculpture. Center right:
Bather Diving with a Boy, after an ancient painting. Right: Bather Diving, after an ancient
painting. All ink and watercolour on
paper. Whole sheet size 11.7x8.3 inches (297x210mm) completed circa early 1990s.
Left: Bather Showering, after an ancient
painting.
Center left: Bathers, after ancient paintings. Center right: Bather with a
Lizard, after an ancient sculpture. Right: Bathers, after ancient
painting and an ancient sculpture. All ink and watercolour on
paper. Whole sheet size 11.7x8.3 inches (297x210mm) completed circa early 1990s.
Belvedere Torso, after a plaster cast. Charcoal on Ingres paper. 24x18 ins. (60x45 cm).Completed circa late 1980s.
Red chalk studies after ancient Greco-Roman fragments.Circa late 1980s.
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