17th Oct, 2020 10:30 GMT/BST

Modern & Contemporary Art

 
Lot 1042
 

1042

Ron Gribbons (20th/21st century) ''Tapping the Pipes for Help'' Signed and dated 1943, together...

Ron Gribbons (20th/21st century)
"Tapping the Pipes for Help"
Signed and dated 1943, together with three further works by the artist "Too Late", "The Last Shift" and "The Last Wash", 28cm by 39cm (4) (unframed)

Gribbons was born near the pit at Chopwell in Derwentside, County Durham, where he went to work as a teenager. Examples of his paintings can be found in the National Coal Mining Museum for England near Wakefield. The Chatterley-Whitfield Colliery Mining Museum, Stoke-on-Trent held over two hundred of his works before they were auctioned off in 1994 when the Museum closed and other examples have been sold at Woodhorn Mining Museum and Beamish. He was a self-taught artist who documented the lives of miners.

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Sold for £320
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 17th Oct, 2020

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