• Rhino -
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    Presentation: Mounted
    etching
    6 x 8 1/4 in. (15 x 21 cm).
    Provenance: Madeleine Canney
  • Untitled abstract on paper, blue, yellow, grey and brown, late 1960's -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Gouache on paper
    2 3/8 x 4 5/16 in. (6 x 11 cm).

    Provenance: Madeline Canney, 2005

    Framed in a gilded shadow box with broad bevelled slip and non reflective museum glass.

    Michael Canney was associated with the Newlyn and St. Ives schools, both as student and teacher, and in 1956 was appointed curator of the Newlyn Orion Gallery. His circle of friends included Scott, Nicholson, Vaughan, Hilton and Lanyon.

    From the mid 1950s Canney's style began to change under the prevailing influence of Abstract Expressionism. His semi figurative - at times Cubist - style gave way to works of pure abstraction.

    In 1958 he met the painter Mark Rothko:'A man of great presence and charm, he was very generous about my work and spent some time looking at it. This was very encouraging as I regarded Rothko as the most important painter on the international scene at the time' - Michael Canney, 1958 (quoted in Michael Canney, Belgave Gallery catalogue, 1990, p. 6).
  • Casole d'Elsa - study -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Pen and ink on brown laid paper
    4 x 9 1/16 in. (10 x 23 cm).

    Provenance: Madeline Canney, 2005

    In a gilded shadow box frame with gesso mount.

    Casole d'Elsa is a medieval hill-top village of 3000 inhabitants in the Province of Siena, in Tuscany, located about 50 km southwest of Florence.  Canney lived at Casole d'Elsa between 1984 and 1993, in a 14th century Palazzo.  The village and its immediate situation was the inspiration for many of his pictures of the period.
  • Casole d'Elsa -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Pen and ink on brown laid paper
    2 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. (6 x 20 cm).

    Provenance: Madeline Canney

    In a gilded shadow box frame with gesso mount.

    Casole d'Elsa is a medieval hill-top village of 3000 inhabitants in the Province of Siena, in Tuscany, located about 50 km southwest of Florence.  Canney lived at Casole d'Elsa between 1984 and 1993, in a 14th century Palazzo.  The village and its immediate situation was the inspiration for many of his pictures of the period.
  • Untitled, black and red on mustard and grey, circa 1970 -
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    Presentation: Framed
    oil over pencil on paper
    3 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.  (8 x 8.5 cm.)

    Provenance: Madeline Canney

    In a modern square section box frame, with gilded flat knull and acid free mount, floated

    Michael Canney was associated with the Newlyn and St. Ives schools, both as student and teacher, and in 1956 was appointed curator of the Newlyn Orion Gallery. His circle of friends included Scott, Nicholson, Vaughan, Hilton and Lanyon.

    From the mid 1950s Canney's style began to change under the prevailing influence of Abstract Expressionism. His semi figurative - at times Cubist - style gave way to works of pure abstraction.

    In 1958 he met the painter Mark Rothko:'A man of great presence and charm, he was very generous about my work and spent some time looking at it. This was very encouraging as I regarded Rothko as the most important painter on the international scene at the time' - Michael Canney, 1958 (quoted in Michael Canney, Belgave Gallery catalogue, 1990, p. 6).
  • Casole d'Elsa - study -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Pen and ink on brown laid paper
    (2 3/8 x 7 7/78 in.) 6 x 20 cm.

    Provenance: Madeline Canney

    Casole d'Elsa is a medieval hill-top village of 3000 inhabitants in the Province of Siena, in Tuscany, located about 50 km southwest of Florence.  Canney lived at Casole d'Elsa between 1984 and 1993, in a 14th century Palazzo.  The village and its immediate situation was the inspiration for many of his pictures of the period.
  • Newlyn Mouse Trap, 1955 -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Titled on a label to the reverse, oil on canvas, 9¾ x 7¼ ins. (24.7 x 18.4 cms.)
    Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, 1989, at Colle di Val d'Elsa, Italy (accession no. 390); private collection since 1989

    Stylistically, this work relates closely to the Neo-Cubist reliefs which Canney produced in a series during the mid 50's.

    Michael Canney was associated with the Newlyn and St. Ives schools, both as student and teacher, and in 1956 was appointed curator of the Newlyn Orion Gallery. His circle of friends included Scott, Nicholson, Vaughan, Hilton and Lanyon. Since Canney's death he has become the subject of increasing critical attention and acclaim.
  • Untitled, late 1950s -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Oil on board, 12 X 14Q ins. (30 X 36.8 cms.)
    Provenance: the artist's estate; private collection.

    From the late 1950s Canney's style began to change under the prevailing influence of Abstract Expressionism. His semi figurative style gave way to works of pure abstraction. In 1958 he met the painter Mark Rothko:'A man of great presence and charm, he was very generous about my work and spent some time looking at it. This was very encouraging as I regarded Rothko as the most important painter on the international scene at the time' - Michael Canney, 1958 (quoted in Michael Canney, Belgave Gallery catalogue, 1990, p. 6).
  • Casole D'Elsa - study -
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    Presentation: Framed
    pen and ink on brown laid paper
    8 1/4 x 2 3/8 in. (21 x 6 cm).

    Provenance: Madeline Canney

    In a gilded shadow box frame with gesso mount.


    Casole d'Elsa is a medieval hill-top village of 3000 inhabitants in the Province of Siena, in Tuscany, located about 50 km southwest of Florence.  Canney lived at Casole d'Elsa between 1984 and 1993, in a 14th century Palazzo.  The village and its immediate situation was the inspiration for many of his pictures of the period.
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