Henry Cliffe,British 1919-1993 -Still life compositions (with 'Still life composition' on the reverse);gouache on paper, 27.7 x 38 cm: together with 9 other works on paper by the same artist of the same size and smaller (10) (unframed) (ARR)Provenance: the Estate of the Artist; private collection, purchased directly from the abovelot154（描述改成下面的文字，名称截取其中部分）: Afro Basadella,Italian 1912-1976 -Untitled, 1964;ink, gouache and mixed media on paper, signed and dated lower right 'Afro 64', 17.8 x 18.8 cm (ARR)Provenance: Winston Graham (1908-2003), the writer of the beloved Poldark novels and thence by descent; private collection, purchased from the aboveNote: This is a classic example of the artist's mature style, demonstrating his assimilation of both European and North American Post-War abstraction. Afro Basadella was part of a vital generation of artists that emerged from Italy in the 1950s, including Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana, and his work combined the energy of Abstract Expressionism with the refined palette of historical Venetian painting. The artist visited and exhibited in New York during the 1950s alongside artists such as Jackson Pollock and Archille Gorky, and his close friend Willem de Kooning lived and worked for a time at his studio in Rome in 1959.Afro is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Ca’Pesaro Museum in Venice, and his works are held in major public collections across the globe, including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, MoMA, New York and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.