Leslie Marr Sold at Auction Prices

Painter, b. 1922 - d. 2021

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £150 - £250

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) PEFKOS BAY, RHODES, GREECE signed and dated Marr / '82 lower left oil on canvas 26 x 36cm; 10 1/4 x 14 1/4in 36 x 46cm; 14 1/4in x 18in (framed)

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £350 - £450

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) GLEN ETIVE, SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS oil on canvas 71.5 x 123cm; 28 1/4 x 48 1/2in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) CRACKPOT MOOR, SWALEDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE signed and dated Marr 5/01 lower left; signed, signed and dated Marr 2001 on the overlap; inscribed CRACKPOT MOOR on the stretcher oil on canvas 64 x 76.5cm; 25 1/4 x 30 1/4in 75 x 88cm; 29 1/2 x 34 3/4in (framed)

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) LOOKING TOWARDS SUILVEN & CANSIP, SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS signed and dated Marr 1953/2014 lower left oil on canvas 77 x 155cm; 30 1/4 x 61in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £250 - £350

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) DAHLIAS signed and dated Marr / SEPT / 2009 / 2013 lower left oil on canvas 111 x 78cm; 43 3/4 x 30 3/4in 122 x 91cm; 48 x 35 3/4in (framed)

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £100 - £150

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) THE FIRTH OF CLYDE AND HARRIS (I & II) signed Marr lower left; dated 88 lower right (i) signed Marr lower left dated 66/75 lower right (ii) each brush, ink, watercolour and wash on paper 14.5 x 19cm; 5 3/4 x 7 1/2in (i) 15.5 x 23cm; 6 x 9in (ii) both unframed (2)

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    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £100 - £150

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) IRISES signed Marr lower left; dated 26/06/01 lower right watercolour and pastel on paper 76 x 56cm; 30 x 22in 108 x 85.5cm; 42 1/2 x 33 3/4in (framed) Exhibited Newcastle, Northumbria University Gallery, 2001 Newcastle, Northumbria University Gallery, Leslie Marr: Into the 21st Century: Paintings, 2007, no. 35 London, Portland Gallery, Leslie Marr: A Centenary Exhibition, 2022

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) SELF PORTRAIT - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO signed and dated Marr, 2008 lower left oil on canvas 92 x 62cm; 36 1/4 x 24 1/2in unframed

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    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) TENGA VALLEY, HIMALAYAS signed and dated Marr '86 lower left; signed and inscribed L.Marr / VIEW FROM TENGA on the stretcher oil on canvas 51 x 61cm; 20 x 24in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) THE STIPERSTONES, SHROPSHIRE signed and dated Marr / '93 lower left; titled "THE STIPERSTONES" on the overlap; titled SHROPSHIRE on the stretcher oil on canvas 63.5 x 71cm; 25 x 28in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £150 - £250

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) GLEN ETIVE, SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS signed and dated Marr / 76 lower left; inscribed GLEN ETIVE on the stretcher 31 x 41.5cm; 12 1/4 x 16 1/4in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 12, 2025

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £250 - £350

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) LESLIE MARR (LOTS 96-107) Introduction Marr was born in Durham into a family of engineers and shipbuilders and studied Engineering at Cambridge. But while serving in the RAF in the Middle East during the Second World War he began to paint. Short on supplies, he procured some brushes and paint and purportedly used his kit bag as canvas to depict the landscape around him. On his return to London he enrolled in art school in Pimlico. But uninspired by the conventional approach offered, a chance encounter with David Bomberg’s stepdaughter, Dinora Mendelsohn, led Marr to seek the more vivacious and anything but ‘run-of-the-mill’ teaching style that Bomberg espoused at Borough Polytechnic in South London. Bomberg’s innovative non-academic approach to painting centred around discovering what he called ‘the spirit of the mass’. It was a method that had been fuelled by his pre-War painting expeditions to far flung and isolated destinations: the rugged landscapes of Palestine, the volcanic gorges of Ronda in Spain, and the mountains of Cyprus. And his ideas had a profound influence on a number of his students, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach amongst them, as well as Marr himself. Bomberg’s non-conventional style spawned The Borough Group, founded in 1946 by Cliff Holden. Among its members were Bomberg, his wife Lillian Holt, Dinora Mendelson, Dorothy Mead, Edna Mann, Miles Peter Richmond, Dennis Creffield and Marr. After marrying in 1946, Marr and Dinora travelled to Cyprus with Bomberg. Painting there together Marr’s work flourished, and he would later describe his time in Greece as the point at which he achieved the ‘enlightened’ state. But with the break-up of the Group in 1950 Marr turned to other interests, including as a photographer, film maker and Formula 1 driver before returning to painting after Bomberg’s death in 1957. Re-connecting with Bomberg’s original approach, Marr travelled far and wide to seek out wild and isolated landscapes - as far afield as New Zealand - and used extreme contrasts and thrusting diagonals to depict untamed Nature. In the present sale these wild landscapes include views across the Scottish Highlands, the Himalayes, Greece and the Western Isles. the Western Isles. Another influence was Chaim Soutine, whose distinctive style permeates much of Marr's later output. LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) LINARIS, SPAIN signed and dated Marr / '06 lower left; inscribed and dated Linaris June 2006 on the stretcher oil on canvas 76 x 64cm; 30 x 25 1/4in unframed

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  • § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Feb. 11, 2025

    § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £500 - £800

    LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) GLEN CAITLIN, 1975 Signed and dated '75 lower left, inscribed with title and dated to canvas overlap verso, oil on canvas 76cm x 92cm (30in x 36.25in), unframed

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  • § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Feb. 11, 2025

    § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £500 - £800

    LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) GLEN CEITLIN, 2015 Signed and dated July 2015 lower left, inscribed and dated to canvas overlap verso, oil on canvas 70.5cm x 90.5cm (28in x 35.5in)

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  • § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Jan. 22, 2025

    § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) LOCH ASSYNT SUNSET, 1964 Signed and dated '64 lower left, signed, inscribed with title and dated to stretcher verso, oil on canvas 63cm x 77cm (24.75in x 30.25in) Piano Nobile, London

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  • § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Jan. 22, 2025

    § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £400 - £600

    LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) LOCH ETIVE, 1979 Signed and dated '79 lower left, signed and inscribed with title to stretcher verso, oil on canvas 102cm x 127cm (40in x 50in), unframed

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  • λ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021), EXMOOR
    Dec. 12, 2024

    λ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021), EXMOOR

    Est: £400 - £600

    λ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)EXMOOR Oil on canvas Signed and dated Dec. 2015 (lower left); further signed, titled, inscribed No. 351 and dated 2015 to canvas overlap (verso)71 x 92cm (27¾ x 36 in.)Measurements do not include the frame unless specified. Please note Dreweatts are not liable for damage to frames or mounts.

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  • Leslie Marr,  The Bad Trip, 1972-74 
    Nov. 27, 2024

    Leslie Marr,  The Bad Trip, 1972-74 

    Est: £300 - £500

    Leslie Marr,  British 1922-2021 -  The Bad Trip, 1972-74;  watercolour and gouache on paper, signed and dated lower left 'Marr 9/1/72 12/1/74', 57 x 61 cm (ARR)  Provenance:  the Estate of the Artist  Note: numbered LM9122 to label attached to the reverse of the frame 

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  • Leslie Marr,  Sunset Stalleti (Alabria)  
    Nov. 27, 2024

    Leslie Marr,  Sunset Stalleti (Alabria)  

    Est: £300 - £500

    Leslie Marr,  British 1922-2021 -  Sunset Stalleti (Alabria);   watercolour and gouache on paper, signed lower right 'Marr' and and dated lower left '27/7/78', 38.2 x 57.2 cm (ARR)  Provenance:  the Estate of the Artist  Note: numbered LM9120 to label attached to the reverse of the frame 

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  • Leslie Marr,  Gladioli, 2015  
    Nov. 27, 2024

    Leslie Marr,  Gladioli, 2015  

    Est: £400 - £600

    Leslie Marr,  British 1922-2021 -  Gladioli, 2015;   oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 'Marr 8 Aug 2015', 91.3 x 71 cm (unframed) (ARR)  Provenance:  the Estate of the Artist 

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  • λ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021), EXMOOR
    Oct. 23, 2024

    λ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021), EXMOOR

    Est: £400 - £600

    λ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)EXMOOR Oil on canvas Signed and dated Dec. 2015 (lower left); further signed, titled, inscribed No. 351 and dated 2015 to canvas overlap (verso)71 x 92cm (27¾ x 36 in.)

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  • λ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021), NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS
    Oct. 23, 2024

    λ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021), NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS

    Est: £400 - £600

    λ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS Oil on canvas Signed and dated '82 (lower left); further signed and titled (verso)89 x 120cm (35 x 47 in.)

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) FLOWERS AND CASTLE RUINS signed and dated Marr / JAN. 2019 lower left; titled and dated on the reverse oil on canvas 92 x 71cm; 36 1/4 x 28in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) LINARES, ANDALUSIA signed Marr / / '06; titled LINARES and dated on the reverse oil on canvas 71 x 91cm; 28 x 35 3/4in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £120 - £180

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) LANDSCAPE IN LIEBANA, BASQUE COUNTRY signed Marr / JUNE '06 lower left watercolour and gouache and charcoal on paper 54 x 73.5cm; 21 1/4 x 29in 86.5 x 105cm; 34 x 41 1/4in (framed) Exhibited Newcastle, Nothumbria University Gallery, Leslie Marr, Into the 21st Century: Paintings, 2007, no. 41

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) STAC POLLAIDH, SUTHERLAND signed and dated Marr / 06; signed and titled on the reverse oil on canvas 71 x 91cm; 28 x 35 3/4in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) POINSETTIAS signed and dated Marr / 1/90 / 9/04 lower left oil on canvas 77 x 71cm; 30 1/4 x 28in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £150 - £250

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) KICH-NA-HOY, ARRAN, WESTERN ISLES signed Marr lower left; dated 4/6/87 lower right charcoal on paper 55 x 74cm; 21 3/4 x 29in 74 x 93cm; 29 x 36 1/2in (framed)

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) GLEN CHALMADALE, ARRAN, WESTERN ISLES signed and dated Marr / '80/ 13 lower left; titled ARRAN on the overlap and GLEN CHALMADALE on the reverse oil on canvas 71 x 91cm; 28 x 35 3/4in 79 x 99cm; 31 x 35in (framed)

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) GLEN CEITLIN, HIGHLANDS titled GLEN CEITLIN on the reverse oil on canvas 71 x 63.5cm; 28 x 25in unframed Painted c. 1980

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) SUTHERLAND, NEAR ACHILTIBUIE signed and dated Marr / '71 lower left; titled on the reverse oil on canvas 72 x 91cm; 28 1/4 x 35 3/4in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £250 - £350

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) HARRIS, OUTER HEBRIDES signed and dated Marr '66 lower left; titled Harris twice on the overlap. oil on canvas 71 x 91cm; 28 x 35 3/4in unframed

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) MONT SAINT VICTOIRE, PROVENCE oil on canvas 71 x 91cm; 28 x 35 3/4in unframed Painted in 1964.

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  • ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £200 - £300

    ⊕ LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) Leslie Marr (lots 115-126) Introduction Marr was born in Durham into a family of engineers and shipbuilders and studied Engineering at Cambridge. But while with the RAF in the Middle East during the Second World War he began to paint. Short on supplies, he procured some brushes and paint and purportedly used his kit bag as canvas to depict the landscape around him. On his return to London he enrolled in art school in Pimlico. But uninspired by the conventional approach offered, a chance encounter with David Bomberg’s stepdaughter, Dinora Mendelsohn, led Marr to seek the more vivacious and anything but ‘run-of-the-mill’ teaching style that Bomberg espoused at Borough Polytechnic in South London. Bomberg’s innovative non-academic approach to painting centred around discovering what he called ‘the spirit of the mass’. It was a method that had been fuelled by his pre-War painting expeditions to far flung and isolated destinations: the rugged landscapes of Palestine, the volcanic gorges of Ronda in Spain, and the mountains of Cyprus. And his ideas had a profound influence on a number of his students, Leon Kossoff (1926-2019) and Frank Auerbach (b.1931) amongst them, as well as Marr himself. Bomberg’s non-conventional style spawned The Borough Group, founded in 1946 by Cliff Holden (1926 -2020). Among its members were Bomberg himself, his wife Lillian Holt (1898-1983), Dinora Mendelson (1924-2010), Dorothy Mead (1928-1975), Edna Mann (1926-1985), Miles Peter Richmond (1922-2008), Dennis Creffield (1931-2018) and Marr. After marrying in 1946, Marr and Dinora travelled to Cyprus with Bomberg. Painting there together Marr’s work flourished, and he would later describe his time in Greece as the point at which he achieved the ‘enlightened’ state. But with the break-up of the Group in 1950 Marr turned to other interests, including as a photographer, film maker and Formula 1 driver before returning to painting after Bomberg’s death in 1957. Re-connecting with Bomberg’s original approach, Marr travelled far and wide to seek out wild and isolated landscapes - as far afield as New Zealand - and used extreme contrasts and thrusting diagonals to depict untamed Nature. In the present sale these wild landscapes include views across the Scottish Highlands (lots 118, 119 & 123), the Western Isles (lot 117, 120 & 121), mountains in Spain (lots 124 & 125), and his brooding canvas of Mont Saint Victoire in the South of France, his tribute to Cézanne. Another influence was Chaim Soutine, whose distinctive style permeates much of Marr's later output. LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) SELF-PORTRAIT signed Marr lower left; inscribed Self P. and LESLIE on the overlap oil on canvas 56 x 40.5cm; 22 x 16in unframed Painted in 1962.

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  • § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £400 - £600

    LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) PLOCKTON - 1988 Signed and dated '88 lower left, oil on canvas 71cm x 76cm (28in x 30in), unframed

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  • § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Oct. 02, 2024

    § LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £500 - £800

    LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) ARRAN. CARLO, AUTUMN Signed and dated ‘84 - ’06 / 2014 lower left, oil on canvas 85cm x 121cm (33.5in x 47.75in)

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  • Leslie Marr, 
    Jun. 11, 2024

    Leslie Marr, 

    Est: £400 - £600

    Leslie Marr,  British 1922-2021 -  Bend in the River, 2012;  oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 'Marr '65 / 2012', 71.3 x 91.9 cm (ARR)  Note: numbered LM0048 to label attached to the reverse

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  • Leslie Marr, 
    Jun. 11, 2024

    Leslie Marr, 

    Est: £300 - £500

    Leslie Marr,  British 1922-2021 -  Yorkshire, 1999;  watercolour on paper, signed and dated lower left 'Marr 99', 35.3 x 52 cm (ARR)  Provenance: the Estate of the Artist  Note:  numbered on label attached to the reverse 'LM0019' 

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  • Leslie Marr, 
    Jun. 11, 2024

    Leslie Marr, 

    Est: £400 - £600

    Leslie Marr,  British 1922-2021 -  Poppies in Landscape with Windmill, 2011;  oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 'Marr 2011' and signed again, titled and dated again on the reverse, 72 x 91.5 cm (unframed) (ARR)  Provenance: the Estate of the Artist  Note:  numbered on label attached to the reverse 'LM0058'

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  • • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £400 - £600

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) SELF-PORTRAIT: IN THE STUDIO signed and dated Marr 04 lower left oil on canvas 90 x 60cm; 35 1/2 x 23 1/2in 109.5 x 79cm; 43 x 31in (framed) Exhibited London, Portland Gallery, Leslie Marr, A Centenary Exhibition, 2022, n.n.

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  • • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £500 - £700

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) DAHLIAS IN A SPANISH LANDSCAPE signed and dated Marr / 2010 lower left oil on canvas 76.5 x 61.5cm; 30 x 24in 84 x 68.5cm; 33 x 27in (framed)

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  • • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £80 - £120

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) LUCCA CATHERDRAL signed Marr lower left; dated 2/7/88 lower right charcoal on paper 43 x 55cm; 17 x 21 3/4in unframed

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  • • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £700 - £1,000

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) GLEN ETIVE, BALLACHLUISH, THE HIGHLANDS, SCOTLAND signed Marr / 7/2012 lower left oil on canvas 70.5 x 122.5cm; 27 3/4 x 48in 141 x 90cm; 55 1/2 x 35 1/2in (framed) There is a painting of a mountainous landscape on the reverse.

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  • • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £100 - £150

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) WINTER SEA signed and dated Marr 85 lower left watercolour on paper 57 x 76.5cm; 22 1/2 x 30in 90 x 110cm; 35.5 x 43 1/4in (framed)

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  • • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) NEAR ROTHBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND signed and dated Marr 84 lower left oil on canvas 82 x 75cm; 24 1/2 x 29 1/2in 77 x 90cm; 30 1/4 x 35 1/2in (framed)

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  • • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £300 - £500

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) VIEW FROM CHUGGATON signed, inscribed and dated CHUGGATON, DEVON 63' Marr on the reverse oil on canvas 51 x 76.5cm; 20 x 30in unframed Marr lived at Chuggaton, Devon between 1963 and 1970.

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  • • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)
    Mar. 20, 2024

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021)

    Est: £500 - £700

    • LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) Leslie Marr (lots 83-90) Introduction Leslie Marr, born in Durham into a family of engineers and shipbuilders, studied Engineering at Cambridge. But while serving with the RAF in the Middle East during the Second World War discovered a burning inclination to paint. Short on supplies, he procured some brushes and paint and purportedly used his kit bag as canvas to depict the landscape around him. On his return to London he enrolled in art school in Pimlico. But uninspired by the conventional approach offered, a chance encounter with David Bomberg’s stepdaughter, Dinora Mendelsohn, led Marr to seek the more vivacious and anything but ‘run-of-the-mill’ teaching style that Bomberg espoused at Borough Polytechnic in South London. Bomberg’s innovative non-academic approach to painting centred around discovering what he called ‘the spirit of the mass’. It was a method that had been fuelled by his pre-War painting expeditions to far flung and isolated destinations: the rugged landscapes of Palestine, the volcanic gorges of Ronda in Spain, and the mountains of Cyprus. And his ideas had a profound influence on a number of his students, Leon Kossoff (1926-2019) and Frank Auerbach (b.1931) amongst them, as well as Marr himself. Bomberg’s non-conventional style spawned The Borough Group, founded in 1946 by Cliff Holden (1926 -2020). Among its members were Bomberg himself, his wife Lillian Holt (1898-1983), Dinora Mendelson (1924-2010), Dorothy Mead (1928-1975), Edna Mann (1926-1985), Miles Peter Richmond (1922-2008), Dennis Creffield (1931-2018) and Marr. After marrying in 1946, Marr and Dinora travelled to Cyprus with Bomberg. Painting there together Marr’s work flourished, and he would later describe his time in Greece as the point at which he achieved the ‘enlightened’ state. But with the break-up of the Group in 1950 Marr turned to other interests, including as a photographer, film maker and Formula 1 driver before returning to painting after Bomberg’s death in 1957. Re-connecting with Bomberg’s original approach, Marr travelled far and wide to seek out wild and isolated landscapes – as far afield as New Zealand - and used extreme contrasts and thrusting diagonals to depict untamed Nature. In the present sale these landscapes include highly charged views of the River Barle and Chuggaton in Devon (lots 83 & 84), Rothbury, Northumberland (lot 85) and Glen Etive, Scotland (lot 87). But Bomberg’s nervous energy can equally be seen in Marr’s charcoal of Lucca cathedral (lot 88), which combines a massing of architectural elements with swirling weather conditions. Another influence was Chaim Soutine, whose distinctive style permeates much of Marr's later output. 83 LESLIE MARR (BRITISH 1922-2021) BARLE IN WINTER signed and dated Marr / 63/4 lower left oil on canvas 91.5 x 91.5cm; 36 x 36in 106 x 106cm; 41 3/4 x 41 3/4in (framed) Exhibited London, Portland Gallery, Leslie Marr, A Centenary Exhibition, 2022, n.n. The River Barle runs north across the border between Devon and Somerset, a few miles west of Marr's home at Higher Chuggaton where he lived between 1963 and 1970.

    Olympia Auctions
  • Leslie Marr, British 1922-2021 - Valgorge, 2016;  oil on canvas, signed a
    Mar. 12, 2024

    Leslie Marr, British 1922-2021 - Valgorge, 2016;  oil on canvas, signed a

    Est: £400 - £600

    Leslie Marr, British 1922-2021 - Valgorge, 2016;  oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 'Marr 2016', 60.5 x 91 cm (unframed) (ARR) Note: numbered LM00921 to label attached to the reverse

    Roseberys
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