Established 1997 Company Registration 0364805

Artist and Art Adviser on all modern art related issues.

I have assembled, displayed and worked on business art collections in Peterborough, Brentwood, London, and Chelmsford.

I have hung or assisted in hanging around 50 exhibitions. Some with up to 150 paintings.

I have worked on many committees. Including The Culture, Leisure and Tourism Board for Peterborough City Council, Peterborough Arts Council and Peterborough Museum and Art gallery. helen.mould@btinternet.com

Cove, by Helen Mould £650 oil on Stretched Linen, 5 cm depth box canvas. 50 x 35 cm

This was painted after a trip to Eyemouth on the Scottish Borders. The painting was on exhibition at the Great Northern Hotel in Peterborough from 2005 - 2008. Such a beautiful setting for the small harbour but it could only be reached by walking through a tunnel cut into the rocks. Very spooky.

Skroll down the page for collectors items, index links, more info on my, Helen Mould paintings.

Updated June 2010

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Welcome to Peterborough Art House Ltd

01733 349024 or 0790 550 6018 helen.mould@btinternet.com

Signed Limited Edition Prints for sale by Patrick Hughes, Tom Philips, Ivan Picelj, Darby Bannard, Charlotte Cornish, John Bellany, Kip Gresham, Roger Hilton, Jack Yates, and others in the catalogue section are available to view by request only or email helen.mould@btinternet.com.

please go to the Peterborough Arthouse :: Catalogue to find the links to other pages or scroll down this page and find them on the left after the Barbara Rae, Ivan Picelj and the studio view.

Recently added:-

please note these are NOT SIGNED. They are postcards of screenprints by the artist and printed by Gresham Studios

10 postcards by Peter Blake, CBE, RA

5 of the risque or erotic Demonstrations in a Department Store.These postcards are a bit rude, sexy etc so part of the image I have blocked off with the other card to make it suitable for general viewing. They are really good quality postcards.

5 of the pop art, Some of the Sources of Pop Art

The postcards were printed by Gresham Studios, Cambridgeshire, since gone into liquidation.

Postcards Risque Erotic and Pop Art by Peter Blake

10 postcards £5.50 plus £2 p & p (5 of each)

2 limited edition prints by PATRICK HUGHES.

SOLD

A Hughes in every room. I have another Patrick Hughes limited, The Studio. Please contact me for details.

2 limited editions. by Tom Phillips

please contact me, Helen Mould on

helen.mould@btinternet.com for condition reports on the Tom Philips prints. Kathryn Moore

screen print, signed £20 plus p & p

12 paintings by Fenland artist Mac Gregory, artist on The Great Fen project.

I have Landscapes of The Fens and other areas. His powerful representations bring an insight into the calm and vastness of the great legacy of the Dutch masters of the Fens. I will upload some of these paintings - at highly discounted prices - before the end of February. Please email me if you want to beat the crowd and can't wait that long.

Here is one image, Stubble Burning at night, Stubble burning I think may be banned now either completely or near major roads because of the hazard caused by thick smoke drifting across the road.

Fenland Snow Storm by Mac Gregory

Dr Barbara Rae, CBE RA RSA RGI RSW, Boats at Dunure, Scotland, 1981, watercolour 75 x 53 cm, Framed under glass price on request

Barbara Rae, CBE RA RSA RGI RSW

Born: 10 December 1943, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK and was elected President of the Society of Scottish Artists in 1983. She was made a Member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1992 (ARSA 1980) and a Royal Academician in 1996. She has been a Member of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland since 1995 and was a Member of the Board of the British School at Rome in 1998. In 1999 she was awarded a CBE and received an Honorary Doctorate from Napier University, Edinburgh. Rae lives and works in Edinburgh.

Helen Mould's studio artist's open studio event.

some of my abstract and figurative paintings.

here is a close

up of 1/2 of the one panel of featured diptych in studio view. One can see the texture

more easily than on the postcard, but to appreciate it one needs to see it.

There is a lot of play with texture and flatness going on with the surface.

Appointments - 0790 550 6018 or email helen.mould@btinternet.com

The catalogue is updated regulary. You can bookmark us for easy reference. You can e-mail us if there is a style of art you would like to see more of in our catalogue or if you have any other comments.

Corner detail

2 framed under glass, signed, Ivan Picelj (or Picilji) print. £550 Pair

Some are being exhibited in Peterborough

at THE CRESSET, in The North Walk Cafe

The Cresset North Walk Cafe is a friendly venue and you can see my paintings in reality without any pressure. No one need even know you are there to look at them. 5% Discount if you mention seeing this notice.

books for sale

Appointments - 0790 550 6018 or email helen.mould@btinternet.com

the painting of a woman drinking wine - Girls Night Out - in the catalogue section

was exhibited in Peterborough Museum art gallery for month of March.

NEW section in our Catalogue: Limited edition
prints and drawings
Some of the works available in our Catalogue

books for sale Selina Thorp painting, Lemons

email me for any other information

£185

+ £20 pp

An attractive small oil or impasto acrylic painting by the contemporary Scottish trained artist SELINA THORP. image is 3" x 5" and it is in a plain, light wood frame, cushion style, maybe Beech or Obeche which brings the overall size up to 13" x 13".

SELINA THORP Biography (courtesy of Walker Gallery)

Born in Leeds in 1968, Selina Thorp graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with an honours degree having taken a foundation course at Jacob Kramer College, Leeds. Influential people at Edinburgh were David Mitchie OBE and her tutor William Baillie. Her lecturers included Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, John Houston and Victoria Crowe. Selina paints in situ wherever she finds an absorbing subject, whether it be a town view, a port, a market, or a flower shop. This gives her paintings a spontaneity, which is reflected in the minute details she seeks to record.
She exhibits regularly and has had a number of solo exhibitions, this being her third solo show with Walker Galleries. Other solo shows include the Westgate Gallery, North Berwick, Royal Institute of Architects in Scotland; Italian Paintings at Valvona and Crolla, Edinburgh. Selected mixed exhibitions include Leeds Centenary Exhibition, University of Leeds; Leeds Art Fair, and the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. She received first prize for the New English Art Club, Student Section 1991; first prize at the Laing Art Competition in Harrogate 1993 and Highly Commended in 1998 in London; and the Travel Scholarship award, New English Art Club 1993. She exhibits regularly throughout the country, including at the Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibitions.

CHARLOTTE CORNISH - THEN and NOW 1 (circles) (2001);

9 colour screen-print on Velum Arches 300gm, printed by Ian & Jan Wilkinson, 70 x 120cm This edition number: £275 order

Charlotte Cornish is successful Cambridge artist. She uses the powerful relationship between colour and form to communicate emotional vivre, a Joy of Living. This silkscreen print has a vitality that is not easy to pick up from the computerised image. Her work can be seen in Cambridge galleries and on the internet, but you won't find a better bargain price that this. £295

Dillon
Horse Fair acrylic on heavy duty Arches paper £450. order

Note, the valuer at Sothebys commented on how well executed this painting is. However the value is to low for them to auction it.

Helen Mould
Aphrodite - oil and foil on box canvas, Textured, unusual, one off statement around the meaning of life and love. Please contact me if you would like more information about the meanings behind the creation of this - or any of my paintings. I am more than happy to talk about them.

20" x 48",

55 x 130 cm approx.

£650. order

Art MarketInsight [May 2010]

Art investment

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Christie’s and Sotheby’s anticipate price increases [May 10]

For their Contemporary Art sales on 11 and 12 May 2010, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are betting on high prices for masterpieces signed Warhol, Klein and Rothko. But above all, the catalogues contain a number of major works that the crisis has withheld from the market. The hot names in Contemporary art like Jeff KOONS, Richard PRINCE and Maurizio CATTELAN are also back and in most cases they are carrying very ambitious price estimates. With morale inflated by recent records in the Old Masters segment ( RAPHAEL) and the Modern segment (Alberto GIACOMETTI), the auction houses are anticipating that Contemporary prices will rise from exactly the point where they collapsed when the crisis began. And yet, just eight days before the sales, the Contemporary Art price index is still wallowing at its May 2009 level.

Among the 49 lots offered in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art sale on 11 May, 29 could generate results above the million-dollar line. As has often been the case in recent years, the sale’s success is depending on Andy WARHOL, the highest priced artist in the world behind Pablo PICASSO, and Yves KLEIN, the world’s most sought-after French artist. Based on Christie’s upper estimates, the six works by Warhol offered on 11 May could generate 45 million dollars! The highest hammer price is expected for Silver Liz, a Liz Taylor transformed into an icon against a silver background (Warhol’s fetish colour) carrying a $10m to $15m price tag. A twin sister of this Liz fetched $4m at Phillips, De Pury & Luxembourg in November 2002. If it reaches its $10m to $15m price range, the Silver Liz will have accreted in value by roughly 150% in less than eight years.
The second major work by Andy Warhol is a mosaic of nine Pop faces of Holly Solomon, the inspired art dealer with a very Sixties haircut (1966) announced at $7m to $12m.
The third masterpiece with 8-figure potential is a superb anthropometry by Yves Klein in which the bodily impression produces a lyrical abstraction (Anthropométrie "Le Buffle" - ANT 93). This piece is estimated at $8m to $12m.

Michael Crichton Collection
However, the spectacular results will not stop there. Christie’s has obtained 31 lots from the Michael Crichton collection including numerous excellent pieces and, notably, two major works by Robert RAUSCHENBERG (the Trapeze, estimated at $5m - $7m, fetched $42,500 on 26 October 1972 at Sotheby’s, and Studio Painting, estimated $6m - $9m, sold for $350,000 on 10 November 1982 at Christie’s) and a Jasper JOHNS encaustic flag, a museum-quality piece that could generate one of the artist’s best ever auction results (Flag, $10m - $15m).

Record expected for a Warhol self-portrait
Opposite Christie’s Silver Liz, Sotheby’s is offering a monumental self-portrait by the artist (nearly 3 metres from corner to corner). The first time Sotheby’s sold this work in November 1986, it generated $26,000. If it sells within the estimated range of 10-15 million dollars, it could set a new record for a unique self-portrait by Andy Warhol (the current record is held by Self Portrait, Green Camouflage at $11m). Other Warhols in the Sotheby’s sale include Flowers earmarked at $5m - $7m, and Airmail Stamps which sold for $900,000 in 2005 and is now estimated at $2.8 - $3.5m!
Under the $1m bar since 2008, the artist Philip GUSTON is expected to return to 7-figures with his Jail that Sotheby’s is offering in a $2m - $3m price range. And there is considerable optimism attached to the return to auction of major works by Jeff Koons and Richard Prince. Indeed, Jeff Koons’ steel locomotive Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Engine is being offered in a higher bracket than when it last sold on 13 May 2009 at Christie's. Last year, the piece fetched $2m, twice its upper estimate. This year, that result is the lower estimate ($2m - $3m) at Sotheby’s! Prices are also set considerably higher for works by Maurizio Cattelan. Sotheby’s will be offering a sculpture portraying the artist bursting through a hole in the floor. This mock break-in fetched $1.8m at Christie's in 2004. It is being now offered by Sotheby’s for between 3 and 4 million dollars (12 May).

A major work by Marc Rothko
The auctioneers are exhibiting their confidence in a full-speed market recovery by returning “major” works to their sales. While Warhol’s self-portrait is clearly a major work: Mark ROTHKO’s vibrant orange painting is even more so. Sotheby’s is offering the piece at $18 to $25m. Since the autumn 2008 price meltdown when another major Rothko exceptionally good work entitled No.43 (Mauve) failed to sell against a lower estimate of $20m, there haven’t been any works of this stature offered in auctions.
On the basis of this year’s upper estimates posted by Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the crisis appears to have been nothing more than a brief storm and the merry-go-round of million-dollar results has re-commenced for works signed by established artists. On the other hand, the catalogues for these New York sales on 11 and 12 May contain no works by contemporary Chinese, Indian (apart from Anish KAPOOR) or Japanese artists.

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Antiques Trade Gazette report Tues 22nd June 2010 on the Art Market

EU to delay impact report on Artists' Resale Right

21 June 2010

THE European Commission has reneged on a legal undertaking to review the effects of the Artist’s Resale Right in the UK before it is extended to the estates of dead artists.

Instead, Commission ministers now say that they will simply note the effects once the measure has been formally adopted across all member states.

The UK, which secured a derogation limiting the Resale Right to living artists when it was adopted in 2006, is due to extend it to the estates of artists who have been dead for less than 70 years on January 1, 2012. At that point, artists such as Picasso, Bacon, Matisse, Moore and many other highly sought-after names will automatically qualify, leading to a far greater impact on the market than hitherto seen.

As British Art Market Federation chairman Anthony Browne told ATG: “The European Commission’s abandonment of its commitment to the UK art market is the equivalent of a doctor deciding to delay treatment until the patient has died.”

The announcement came in response to a question put by MEP Marianne Thyssen asking what the Commission had done about the study.

“Article 11 of Directive 2001/84/EC states that the Commission shall submit a report not later than 1 January 2009 on the implementation and the effect of this directive, paying particular attention to the competitiveness of the European market in relation to other markets that do not apply the resale right,” stated Mme Thyssen.

“Can the Commission confirm that it drew up such a report on 1 January 2009? If so, can it say what conclusions were reached? If not, does the Commission still intend to produce this assessment?”

In reply, the Commission now says that it will wait to look at the effects of the Resale Right until all member states have extended it to the estates of dead artists. As yet, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands have not done so.

In effect, this means that while it has forced the UK to adhere to the letter of the directive, regardless of the effects it might have on the UK’s art market, the Commission feels no such duty to adhere to its own commitments under the directive.

By Ivan Macquisten

There is renewed interest in original contemporary oil painting and abstract acrylic paintings after a slump in the market for around two years.

Luke Harris reports for The Art Newspaper that: "... there has been a resurgence in the Indian art market. The prices reached for paintings are far above any being asked at Peterborough Art House Limited but the report from Mumbai details the autumn auction at Saffronart on 9-10 September and gave focus to a cautious resurgence in the Indian art market. The ... online auction sold 77% of 95 lots, with 34 passing high estimate. Nine of the top ten lots were by post-war Progressive Group artists, with the highest price of $391,000 bid for an untitled landscape diptych by Akbar Padamsee from 1995, comfortably past its upper estimate of $350,000. Close behind, F.N. Souza’s Old City Landscape, painted in 1957 when the artist was in Paris, made $379,500 (est $300,000-$500,000).

I was interested to read that " ... the only contemporary work to make the top ten was an untitled 2006 kitchenware painting by Subodh Gupta, which sold for $209,875 (est $175,000-$225,000), a telling contrast to the $1.5m that a similar work made last summer.

According to Saffronart director Minal Vazirani, the auction showed consolidation in a market looking for equilibrium, with around 60% domestic buyers and notable new interest coming from South East Asia." Is the resurgence fueled by landscape and figuartive work and moved slowly away from abstract and abstract expressionists favoured recently. At a recent visit to an auction in Cornwall it was suggested there is a growing body of interest in landscape, particularly English watercolours. Will this be?

A cynic might think it could be the auction house drumming up business for an as yet un-announced English Water colour painting auction..

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