"Taking The Reins" Polo Watercolour by Graham Isom (UK, b.1945-) Oliver Messel

"Taking The Reins" Polo Watercolour by Graham Isom (UK, b.1945-) Oliver MesselClassic watercolour of a UK polo player taking the reins Signed (LR): by Graham Isom (UK, b. 1945 ) Art Sz: 15"H x 10 3 8"W Frame Sz: 24 1 2"H x 19 1 2"W

an important Louis XV bureau plat and chandelier

Every painting has been lent by a private owner or a family trust and many have remained in the same family which commissioned them

Simonneta Visconti

the material itself

8 1/4" x 6 7/8"

who had previously appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and Sam the Sudden (1925)

Initially experimenting with a more Abstract Expressionist inspired style and cut paper collage

Some of the designers featured are Hebert de Givenchy

Art Sz: 20 1/4"H x 14"W

and political (though heedless of ephemeral policies)" from the preface

and many of them have become the definitive images of key figures of cultural life in London during the Swinging Sixties

"The Gentleman at War"