🔥 Fine Vintage Modern Figural Woman Abstract Oil Painting, Robert SADLER 1950s

Description: This is an expressive and Fine Vintage Modern Figural Woman Abstract Oil Painting on Masonite, by renowned British Abstract Expressionist painter, Robert Sadler (1909 - 2001.) This impressive figural abstraction depicts a pensive unclothed woman sitting at her kitchen table, with a small bright orange towel draped over her left arm, suggesting that she just stepped out of the shower. She sits in a high-backed wooden chair, and behind her is a glimpse of a backyard, with possible greenery perceived in the distance. Her kitchen wallpaper is a rendered in a vivid lilac hue and painted with thick textured impasto. Signed: "SADLER" on the verso. Approximately 32 3/4 x 35 7/8 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 31 3/4 x 35 1/8 inches. Good condition for 60+ years of age and storage, with moderate scuffing and light scratches to the painted surface, and faint scuffing and edge wear to the original period mid-century vintage wood frame. Acquired from an old collection in Los Angeles County, California. Priced to Sell. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Robert Sadler Born: 1909 - Newmarket, EnglandDied: 2001 - East Suffolk, EnglandKnown for: Still life, figure, horse, abstract expressionist painting Robert Sadler (1909 - 2001) was active/lived in United Kingdom. Robert Sadler is known for Still life, figure, horse, abstract expressionist painting. Robert Sadler (1909-2001)Robert Sadler was born in Newmarket, England in 1909, the second son of Harry Sadler (a well-known racehorse trainer) and Ada Sadler (neé Lane). He showed great promise at drawing and painting as a child.Robert was sent to boarding school at Eastbourne College, and from there he went to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, to read Mechanical Engineering. At Cambridge he joined the University Air Squadron, where he learned to fly, and in 1930 joined the Royal Air Force as a Pilot Officer. For a while he was the personal pilot of the C-in-C of the RAF, Sir John Steel, flying him around in a Hawker Hart with the open rear cockpit converted into a desk for the great man to do his paperwork (at over 150 mph!). Some drawings survive from this period.In 1935 Robert was married to Madeleine Leach (neé Langley) widow of the trainer Felix Leach Junior. They were together for 66 years until his death in 2001. His widow lived until 2011 and died aged 106.Robert's RAF postings included Duxford, Central Flying School, Cranwell Staff College, Northolt (RAF HQ), Alexandria (Egypt) and Invergordon (Scotland), but shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War Robert was posted to France as a staff officer with the Advanced Air Striking Force. The obsolete Fairey Battle bombers of the AASF suffered terribly, and even the Hurricane fighters could not stem the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Luftwaffe. After the debacle of the German breakthrough and the evacuation at Dunkirk, Robert found himself retreating westwards into Brittany, before finally getting a flight back to Britain with nothing but the uniform he stood up in and a splendid wireless set he had hired in Rheims. At one point the staff were based in the Pommery Champagne cellars, where Guy de Pommery (liaison officer between the British and French air forces) gave his consent to the evacuation of two lorry loads of champagne "pour assister le rétrait du RAF". Sadly this, and almost all other equipment, was lost.Robert was next posted to command RAF bomber squadrons in England converting to the new twin-engined Vickers Wellington bombers, the first RAF bomber in which the crew were dispersed throughout the aircraft, rather than being concentrated in one cockpit or cabin. To his amazement, Robert found that the RAF had issued no guidelines to captains of such aircraft on how they should train and manage the aircrew, and maintain morale. He at once drafted his own guidelines, many of which were subsequently taken up officially by the RAF. In these early days of operations over Germany Robert maintained that they rarely saw the ground and almost never found the target.In 1942 Robert moved to Plans at the Air Ministry in London, which gave him his first real chance to attend art school (Hatherly's) and develop the skills he yearned to make more use of. But in 1943 (shortly after the birth of his son, Robin) he was posted to Turkey, ostensibly as an instructor at the Turkish Air Staff College, but with the covert mission of helping to dissuade the Turks from entering the war on the German side by extolling the virtues of the RAF and the certainty of an eventual Allied victory. He flew out (without his family - this was wartime) in the converted bomb bay of a Liberator (a common way to travel in wartime) but once there he found the conditions in Turkey utterly delightful and a far cry from blacked-out Britain. He lodged in Ankara with the First Secretary of the British Embassy, Douglas Busk, whose valet was later to achieve infamy as the German spy "Cicero".With only a modest schedule of lectures to deliver at the Staff College, Robert was at last able to indulge again in his two passions - painting and horses. He would take his easel and water colours out into the countryside, accompanying Bridget Busk (wife of the First Secretary). On one occasion he was arrested by the Turkish army because (unknown to him) a camouflaged ammunition dump lay in the middle distance of his water colour, but all was explained and forgiven over several cups of Turkish coffee. He was also able to afford to keep and race his own racehorse "Chammosaire" and a groom to look after it, on the pay of a Wing Commander. A self-portrait of him "up" on Chammosaire survives.The Turks did not join the Germans, and in fact declared for the Allies just before VE-day. Robert returned to England as Station Commander at Binbrook in Lincolnshire, where 617 (Dam Buster) Squadron was then based. The base was near a German prisoner of war camp, and many of the prisoners were fearful of returning to a divided Germany, especially Eastern Germany which was occupied by the Russians. While awaiting for repatriation many of the prisoners worked around the air station and in the married quarters of the officers. Forty five years later (after the fall of the Berlin Wall) Robert and Maddie received a letter from one of the officer POW's, who recounted how grateful they had been for their good treatment by the RAF at that time. This correspondence continued for some time.In 1947 Robert received a Diplomatic posting as Air Attaché to the British Embassy in Copenhagen. Once again Denmark and diplomatic privileges provided a living standard that was a far cry from the deprivation of post-war Britain with its rationing. Robert continued to do some painting in Denmark (mainly still lives and landscapes in oils), and attended art school in Copenhagen, before returning to Suffolk in 1949, to live close to his brother Jack who was by now farming at Cheveley, where Robert painted some more landscapes.In 1950 Robert was posted to the RAF Officer Selection Board at Andover as vice-chairman, and rented a house near Stockbridge. A large hut in the garden provided Robert with his first real artist's studio, and he began to devote more time to painting, taking his sketchbook, water colours and pastels out into the countryside, and turning other ideas into paintings in his studio. He attended Winchester School of Art and also did thumbnail sketches of the young men applying to be RAF officers, to help him remember who was who.Robert's final RAF posting came in 1952, when he went to the Pentagon in Washington DC as one of the three-man intelligence committee for the NATO Joint Chiefs of Staff. The committee comprised an American Colonel, a French Colonel, the English Group Captain (Robert) and an American secretary. In this role Robert collated and disseminated NATO intelligence to all the NATO countries, travelling extensively around Europe to do so. While in the USA, Robert was again able to take up painting, especially on one holiday with his family in Martha's Vineyard, and several watercolours survive from this trip. He also attended the Corcoran Gallery Art School in Washington DC.But it was on his return to England in 1954 that Robert's real love of painting took hold. Seeing little hope of further advancement in the RAF, he took early retirement " to devote the rest of my life to painting". He lived at first near Newmarket, to be close to his ailing mother. Once again he had a proper studio and most of his large and more exciting abstract expressionist paintings date from this period, influenced by Jackson Pollock in the USA and Nicholas de Stael (in France). Robert also returned at times to an earlier love of painting horses, and accompanied Sir Alfred Munnings on several occasions on Newmarket Heath to do so.While painting at Newmarket Robert joined the Cambridge Society of Painters and Sculptors and showed work at their annual exhibitions in 1960 and 1961. His work was also exhibited at the Industrial Britain Exhibition (1956), The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition (1957/8), The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (1955), The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (1955 and 1957), The Royal Institute Galleries Summer Salon (1955), Artists of Chelsea (1958), Bradford City Art Gallery (1959), Gainsborough House Society (1962), CEMA Belfast (1962), and Saffron Walden Festival (1962), as well as at commercial galleries in the UK and USA. In 1963/4 (after the death of his mother at Newmarket) Robert Sadler moved his family to Aldeburgh on the East Suffolk coast, where he built a new studio in the garden of their home, in which he held a one-man show during the Aldeburgh Festival almost every year until 2001. During these years his work was also exhibited at The Royal Institute Gallery (1969), East Anglian Art Today, London (1969), the European Parliament at Strasbourg (1985/86), New English Art Club, Centenary Exhibition (1986), and at commercial galleries in Britain and the USA. During these years he painted mainly smaller landscapes (as if seen from a low-flying aircraft), still lifes, figures and sometimes horses, but often turned again to the abstract expressionism for which he is best known. In the 46 years in which he painted full-time (1955-2001) Robert sold some 2,000 paintings; a further 1,000 or more are now held in trust by his son Robin Sadler.While living in Aldeburgh Robert Sadler enjoyed his hobbies of yacht racing and golf, and earned honorary life membership of the Aldeburgh Golf Club by designing and constructing a nine-hole course to supplement the older 18-hole course. Robert Sadler died in August, 2001 and his ashes were scattered (as he wished) on the golf course he designed.In June 2000, Caroline McAdam Clark wrote in her Aldeburgh Art Trail notes for the Aldeburgh Festival:"In traditional Aldeburgh mode, the art trail strikes out beyond the High Street and up the Town Steps to Robert Sadler's studio on the Terrace … Climbing up the spiral staircase to visit Robert Sadler's studio, where his very beautiful abstract paintings are displayed and stacked in piles all around the floor and on tables and chests, is less like visiting an exhibition and more like being allowed a privileged and intimate glimpse behind the scenes of an artist's working space. A fixture on the Aldeburgh calendar for over thirty years, this cannot be missed."This biography has been written by Robin Sadler, son of the painter Robert Sadler who lived from 1909 until 2001. Robin holds all his late father's records, scrapbooks and over 1,000 unsold paintings. Around 2,000 paintings were sold by the artist over the years 1955-2001. (William) Robert Sadler produced abstract works in varying sizes with a spare poise and strong use of colour. The son of a noted racehorse trainer, Sadler was born at Falmouth House (now demolished) at the northern edge of Newmarket, Suffolk. By the age of fourteen he was drawing and painting aeroplanes, horses, houses and landscapes. After studying at Eastbourne College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read Mechanical Engineering, in 1930 he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot. In 1942, whilst posted to the Air Ministry as Director of Plans, he attended art school in London and spent the following year in Turkey on special duties where he lectured at the Turkish Air Staff College and painted and rode race horses. At the end of the war he returned to the UK and took up the post of Station Commander at RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire. In 1947 he moved to Denmark as Air Attache to the British Embassy in Copenhagen where he attended art school and two years later, whilst Vice-President of the RAF Officers' Selection Board, set-up a studio in Stockbridge whilst attending art school in Winchester. In 1953 he moved to the USA to take up the post as representative on the NATO Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Committee during which period he attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC where he first encountered the work of the American Abstract Expressionists. Returning to the UK in 1955 he moved back to Newmarket, having retired from the RAF 'to devote the rest of my life to painting.' He attended Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London, Cambridge Technical College and became a member of the Winchester Art Society and the Cambridge Society of Painters & Sculptors. His first one-man show was at Swaffham Prior, Cambridge and from then until 1963 he lived and painted in a largely abstract expressionist style influenced by the Ecole de Paris Tachisme of Poliakoff and de Stael and by the contemporary British work of Peter Lanyon, William Scott, Bryan Wynter and Adrian Heath. This began a long and distinguished exhibiting career, his work being shown with The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (1955), The Royal Institute Galleries Summer Salon (1955), The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (1955 and 1957), Heffers Gallery, Cambridge (1955, 1958 and 1964), the New Vision Centre Gallery (1957), the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition (1957-58), Bradford City Art Gallery (1959), the King Street Gallery, Cambridge (1959 and 1960), the Cambridge Society of Painters and Sculptors (1960 and 1961), the Obelisk Gallery, Washington DC (1960), Gainsborough House Society (1962), The London Group (1962), CEMA, Belfast (1962), Saffron Walden Festival (1962), the Argos Gallery, Aldeburgh (1963), and the Stable Gallery, Ufford (1964). In 1964 Sadler moved to Aldeburgh, Suffolk and built a new Studio in the garden of his home, 39 The Terrace, where he lived until his death. He showed at the Festival Gallery, Aldeburgh (1966), Royal Institute Gallery (1969), Framlingham Art Gallery (1974), Reades Gallery, Aldeburgh (1976), Tryon Gallery, North Carolina, USA (1979), Philip Francis Gallery, Sheffield (1984), EU Parliament, Strasbourg (1985-86), New English Art Club (1986), Saxmundham Music and Arts (1994), Aldeburgh 100 (1995), The Red Studio, Aldeburgh (1996). He hung an Annual Studio Exhibition almost every year between 1965 and 2001 and since his death Sadler's works have been exhibited at various galleries throughout Suffolk. In 2007 a group of twelve of Sadler's paintings was chosen to furnish the set for the Cornwall-based TV series, Echo Beach. Robert Sadler (1909 – 2001) painted professionally from 1955 to 2001, after a career in the Royal Air Force and completing diplomatic and intelligence posts in Turkey, Denmark and the USA. In the 46 years in which he painted full-time Robert sold some 2,000 paintings; over 1,000 more are held in trust by his son Robin.Robert Sadler was born in Newmarket, England, the second son of racehorse trainer Harry Sadler and Ada Sadler. He showed great promise at drawing and painting as a child, attending Eastbourne College and later Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read Mechanical Engineering. At Cambridge he joined the University Air Squadron and learned to fly, and in 1930 he joined the Royal Air Force as a Pilot Officer.In 1935 Robert was married to Madeleine Leach (neé Langley), widow of Felix Leach. They were together for 66 years.Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War Robert was posted to France as a staff officer with the Advanced Air Striking Force. The AASF suffered terribly under the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Luftwaffe and Robert returned to Britain with nothing but the uniform he stood up in. Robert was next posted to command RAF bomber squadrons in England, and in 1942 he was transferred to the Air Ministry in London. Here he got his first chance to attend art school (Heatherly’s) and to develop his skills as an artist. In 1943 he was posted to Turkey, ostensibly as an instructor at the Turkish Air Staff College, but with the covert mission of helping to dissuade the Turks from entering the war.With only a modest schedule of lectures to deliver, Robert was able to take his easel and water colours out into the Turkish countryside. He was also able to afford his own racehorse and a groom, and a selfportrait of him on Chammosaire survives.Robert returned to England after the war as Station Commander at Binbrook in Lincolnshire. In 1947 he received a Diplomatic posting as Air Attaché to the British Embassy in Copenhagen, where he continued to paint still lifes and landscapes in oils and to attend art school. He returned to Suffolk in 1949, living close to his brother Jack who was farming at Cheveley, where he painted more landscapes.In 1950 Robert was posted to the RAF Officer Selection Board at Andover as vice-chairman. He rented a house near Stockbridge with his first real artist’s studio, and he began to devote more time to painting, taking his sketchbook, water colours and pastels out into the countryside, and turning other ideas into paintings in his studio. He attended Winchester School of Art and also did thumbnail sketches of the young men applying to be RAF officers, helping him to remember who was who.Robert’s final RAF posting came in 1952, to the Pentagon in Washington DC as part of an intelligence committee for the NATO Chiefs of Staff. He travelled extensively but was able to continue painting, including on one holiday with his family in Martha’s Vineyard; several watercolours survive from this trip. He also attended the Corcoran Gallery Art School in Washington DC.On his return to England in 1954 Robert took early retirement from the RAF “to devote the rest of my life to painting”. He lived at first near Newmarket, to be close to his ailing mother, and most of his large and more exciting abstract expressionist paintings date from this period, influenced by Jackson Pollock and Nicholas de Stael. He also returned to his love of painting horses, several times accompanying Sir Alfred Munnings to Newmarket Heath to do so. He joined the Cambridge Society of Painters and Sculptors and began to exhibit his work both in the UK and USA.In 1963/4 Robert moved his family to Aldeburgh. He built a new studio in the garden of their home, in which he held a one-man show during the Aldeburgh Festival almost every year until 2001. He began painting mainly smaller landscapes (as if seen from a low flying aircraft), still lifes, figures and sometimes horses, but often turned to the abstract expressionism for which he is best known.While living in Aldeburgh Robert also enjoyed yacht racing and golf and earned honorary life membership of the Aldeburgh Golf Club by designing and constructing the nine-hole course.He died in August 2001 and his ashes were scattered on the golf course that he designed. ExhibitionsRecent:Art for Cure (online) 2020 7-31 MayThe ArtSpace, Woodbridge, 2018Edge Gallery, Orford (Hugh Pilkington), 2008, 2009, 2012RE+New Gallery, Woodbridge, 2011Strand Gallery, Aldeburgh, 2010Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh, 20091964-96:Festival Gallery, Aldeburgh (1966)Royal Institute Gallery (1969)Framlingham Art Gallery (1974)Reades Gallery, Aldeburgh (1976)Tryon Gallery, North Carolina, USA (1979)Philip Francis Gallery, Sheffield (1984)EU Parliament, Strasbourg (1985/6)New English Art Club (1986)Saxmundham Music and Arts (1994)Aldeburgh 100 (1995)The Red Studio, Aldeburgh (1996)1955-64:The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (1955)The Royal Institute Galleries Summer Salon (1955)The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (1955 and 1957)Heffers Gallery, Cambridge (1955,1958 and 1964)New Vision Centre Gallery (1957)The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition (1957/8)Bradford City Art Gallery (1959)King Street Gallery, Cambridge (1959 and 1960)Cambridge Society of Painters and Sculptors (1960 and 1961)Obelisk Gallery, Washington DC (1960)Gainsborough House Society (1962)CEMA, Belfast (1962)Saffron Walden Festival (1962)Argos Gallery, Aldeburgh (1963)The Stable Gallery, Ufford (1964)

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