Frederick Carter Oils

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Frederick Carter painted in oils throughout his career.  Many earlier works demonstrate competent academic realism, but during the late 1930s and 1940s his style became more relaxed, free and expressionistic.  In these later oil paintings he concentrated on pantomime and music hall scenes in which the dramatic light effects and lively movements serve to engage the viewer in a comic and frenzied theatrical experience.

The following paintings, which include early portraits of family and a self portrait done shortly before his death, demonstrate little known aspects of Carter's singular personality and art.

29.  Untitled.  [Three female dancers on stage against exotic backdrop]
c.1935  636 x 755 Canvas  £1000

30.  The Mermaid.  [Nude male frolics with captured mermaid in sea in preternatural scene]
c.1935 530 x 410 Canvas  £1000

31.  Untitled.  [Madam Time dances holding an umbrella]
Canvas worn and frayed to wood at edges of stretcher.  510 x 407  £900

32.  'Feu de Artifice Joie'.  [Commedia dell' arte characters on stage]
c.1920  Titled and signed on verso: 'Feu de Artifice Joie (on canvas) / Frederick Carter (on stretcher).'  Signed 'FC'  [bottom left hand corner].   605 x 505  £1000

33.  'Self-Portrait'
c.1964  (in simple gold frame)  443x355   Board  SOLD