In our auctions of Modern & Post-War British Art in London this May we are thrilled to present so many works unseen in public for generations – from two very rare early Vorticist works by William Roberts ( Lot 1) and Frederick Etchells (Lot 2) to a group of superb paintings by Peter Lanyon, Alan Davie and William Roberts deaccessioned from a North American Institution (Lots 4, 5 and 17). The sale also includes an exciting group of monumental sculpture from the Jerwood Sculpture Collection that provides an exceptional insight into sculptural practice in Britain since the Second World War (Lots 18-22; 148-160).

The sales cover the breadth of British art in the 20th Century – from superb Modernist examples by Ben Nicholson, to Post-War abstracts and sculpture by Sir Terry Frost, William Scott, Lynn Chadwick, Henry Moore and Dame Barbara Hepworth, and into the last twenty years with two monumental canvases by Sean Scully.