Due to circumstances beyond our control we are no longer able to host this auction but we hope to reschedule it in 2019.
A rather unusual and exciting collection of paintings is being offered for sale at a multiple charity auction at the Cinema Museum.
Guests will have a chance to look round the Museum and see the extraordinary collection of memorabilia from a bygone age of cinema going, and then the opportunity to purchase some interesting works of art for the benefit of three significant national charities, namely, The Royal Mencap Society, The Larches Trust and the Cinema Museum Trust at an auction by Ray Cooney, very successful English playwright, actor, producer and director. His biggest success Run for your Wife had a 9 year run in London’s West End. He has written and produced 17 other comedies which achieved West End success and world tours.
The whole evening has been sponsored by The Marsh Family Trust, so all the proceeds will be going to these charities. Copious drinks and canapés will be provided throughout the evening.
The paintings for auction are by several very different and renowned artists:
Thomas Easley is a world class artist who now lives and works in Upstate New York, and has worked and sold paintings world-wide.
Joseph Nash is probably the most famous lithographer of the 19th Century, and these wonderfully detailed architectural pictures are taken from his masterpiece Mansions of England in Olden Times which he created over a period of about 10 years on site visits from 1839.
Elmyr de Hory is now recognised as one of the world’s most famous “fakers”. Unable to receive adequate payment for his own work, he then started to work in the style of many of the most famous impressionist artists. The work was so good that many museums and galleries around the world invested in these works during the 50s and 60s, believing them to be genuine. He was a charismatic and flamboyant individual and Orson Welles made a documentary, F for Fake, about him in 1974. Extracts from this film will be shown during the event at The Cinema Museum, before the auction.
Doors open at 18.00, for a 19.00 start.
Free refreshments will be available.
TICKETS & PRICING
There will be a token entrance fee of £20 to include the tour and the event. Places are limited, so register your interest to Martin Humphries, Museum Director on e-mail martin@cinemamuseum.org.uk or telephone 0207 840 2200.
