Sworders Modern British & 20th Century Art 20 April 2021

104 Each lot is subject to Buyer’s Premium at 30% inclusive of VAT @ 20% Lots marked * will be subject to an additional fee - please see ARR details on page 136 MODERN BRITISH, 20TH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY ART 104-308 Lot 231 *Sam Toft (b.1964) ‘Searching for Doris’ signed l.r., mixed media 28.5 x 82cm £1,500 - 2,000 Provenance: With John Noott Galleries, Worcestershire. 231 230 229 Lot 229 *Sam Toft (b.1964) ‘Walking with Horace’ mixed media 48 x 39cm £1,200 - 1,800 Provenance: With John Noott Galleries, Worcestershire. Lot 230 *Sam Toft (b.1964) ‘May be a hurricane brewing, Doris’ signed l.r., inscribed l.l., mixed media 15 x 21cm £500 - 700 Provenance: With John Noott Galleries, Worcestershire. LOTS 229-235 ‘My earliest ambition was to work in a post office. Or to join a circus that would accept clumsy acrobats, and had a nice elephant or two. I think now I would have liked to have been a dancer or a gardener or a dog trainer. But I like painting pictures just fine. I have been fortunate enough to work with some fantastic publishers so that my pictures are widely distributed as cards, posters, limited edition prints, mugs, calendars, stationery. It is always an absolute thrill for me to wander into a small shop in an unknown town and see one of my cards, or walk into a bed and breakfast and see a Mr Mustard poster on the wall. I never tire of that. I’m the one who tidies the card racks and has my photograph taken next to window displays, or in doctors’ waiting rooms, next to my work like a big kid. It’s marvellous.’ Sam Toft samtoft.co.uk