• Horizontal abstract, white, grey and brown, early 1960's -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£1,800


    Presentation: Framed
    Oil on board.
    12 5/8 x 24 13/16 in. (32 x 63 cm.)

  • Lancing College, circa 1936 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£1,800


    Presentation: Framed
    Signed on the reverse
    Oil on canvas
    10 x 20 in. (25 x 51 cm.)

    Provenance: The Artist's Family
    Literature: A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 46

    In a reeded gilded hollow frame



  • Large Structures, circa 1960 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£2,000


    Presentation: Framed
    oil on canvas
    48 x 32 in. (122 x 81 cm)

    Exhibited: Drian Gallery, 1966 - possibly "Dark Form" (29)
    Provenance: the artist’s estate
    Framed in an original simple wooden baton attached to the edge of the canvas

    Trained at the Slade School of Art under Myles Tonks, and married to fellow painter Robin Guthrie, Kathleen Guthrie’s pre-war work is firmly figurative. Her abstract painting dates to the post-war period, after she had divorced Guthrie and married the painter Cecil Stephenson  in 1941. Although clearly influenced by Stephenson, she retained a distinctive luminous, soft palette, and her brushwork remained very consistent, avoiding the hard edges and sometimes vigorous impasto of his work. A solo exhibition of her work was held at the Drian Gallery in London in 1966, in which this work was included.
     We are grateful to Marjorie Guthrie for her assistance.
  • Light no. 2, circa 1966 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£3,000


    Presentation: Framed
    Oil on canvas
    Titled on reverse
    36 5/8 x 48 3/8 in. (93 x 123 cm).

    Exhibited: Drian Gallery, 1966, "Light No 2" (36)
    Provenance: the artist’s estate
    Framed in an original simple wooden baton attached to the edge of the canvas
  • Yellow, white, grey, mid 1960's -
    Biography Enquire about this picturePrice on request


    Presentation: Framed
    Signed, titled on reserve
    Oil on canvas
    40.5 x 48 in. (103 x 122 cm).

    Exhibited: Drian Gallery, 1966, possibly "Light No 1", (34)
    Provenance: the artist’s estate
    Framed in an original simple wooden baton attached to the edge of the canvas
  • Blue Bird, 1960s -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£1,800


    Presentation: Framed

     Inscribed with title on reverse: ‘6 Mall Studios,Tasker Road’
    Oil on canvas, 10 × 14 in. (25.5 × 35.5 cm.)
    Provenance: the artist’s estate

    Trained at the Slade School of Art under Myles Tonks, and married to fellow painter Robin Guthrie, Kathleen Guthrie’s pre-war work is firmly figurative. Her abstract painting dates to the post-war period, after she had divorced Guthrie and married the painter Cecil Stephenson (see cat. 44) in 1941. Although clearly influenced by Stephenson, she retained a distinctive luminous, soft palette, and her brushwork remained very consistent, avoiding the hard edges and sometimes vigorous impasto of his work. A solo exhibition of her work was held at the Drian Gallery in London in 1966, in which these works are likely to have been included.

    We are grateful to Marjorie Guthrie for her assistance.

  • Red and Green, 1960s -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£1,800


    Presentation: Framed

    Inscribed with title on reverse;
    oil on canvas, 10 × 14 in. (25.4 cm. × 35.5 cm.)
    Provenance: the artist’s estate

  • Green Picture, from the Camelot series, 1974 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, Green Picture, in pencil
    14 1/2 x 19 1/4 in. (37 x 49 cm). (image size)

    Unique artist's proof

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44


    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Camelot 2, circa 1974 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, Camelot 2, in pencil
    14 1/2 x 19 1/4 in. (37 x 49 cm). (image size)


    Camelot 2, a variation  of Camelot 1, with a darker orange and more vertical central colour field, was produced in an edition of 18

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44


    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Original design for Camelot, circa 1974 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£1,800


    Presentation: Framed
    Gouache
    14 1/2 x 19 1/4 in. (37 x 49 cm)

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44

    Camelot was produced in an edition of 5.
    Camelot 2, a variation with a darker orange and more vertical central colour field, was produced in an edition of 18


    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  This is the original design for Camelot 2, a print which she produced in an edition of 18.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series. 
  • Red Square, circa 1970 -
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    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, Red Square, in pencil
    14 1/2 x 19 1/4 in. (37 x 49 cm). (image size)

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999

    Originally issued in an edition of 8

    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Blue Green Upright, circa 1970 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, Blue Green Upright, in blue crayon
    21 1/4 x 11 7/16 in. (54 x 29 cm). (image size)

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44

    Issue in an edition of 12

    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Blue Green, circa 1970 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, Blue Green, in blue crayon
    14 x 19 1/4 in. (36 x 49 cm). (image size)

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44

    Issue in an edition of 10

    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Grey and Brown, 1, 1977 -
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    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled in pencil
    22 x 30 in. (56 x 76 cm).

    Unique artists proof

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44


    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Variation on Grey and Brown -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£600


    Presentation: Framed
    Gouache
    19 x 25 1/4 in. (48 x 64 cms).


    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44


    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Four Colours -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, Four Colours, Brown and Grey, in pencil
    22 x 2 3/4 in. (56 x 7 cm).

    Unique Artist's proof

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44

    Issue in an edition of 12

    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Silkscreen - red and purple rectangles on blue, circa 1969 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, Magenta III, in pencil
    14 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (37 x 54  cm). (image size)

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, p. 43

    Issue in an edition of 10

    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Verticals (light blue ground), circa 1970 -
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    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, Magenta III, in pencil
    14 x 19 in. (36 x 48 cm). (image size)

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, p. 43

    Issue in an edition of 15 on a light blue ground and in an edition of 8 on a dark blue ground

    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • From a tempera painting by John Cecil Stephenson 1937 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£500


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, From a tempera painting by John Cecil Stephenson 1937, screenprint by Kathleen Guthrie

    16 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. (42.5 x 42.5 cm). (image size)

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, p. 43

    Issue in an edition of 14

    Guthrie was one of the most gifted silk screen print makers of her generation.   In what might be seen as a posthumous collaboration, either shortly before or after the death of her husband Cecil Stephenson, she  reproduced, as silk screens, three of Stephensons iconic Abstracts from 1936, 1937 and 1938.  Inspired by this experiment Guthrie embarked,  in the  late 1960's,  on her Camelot prints, a series of bold hard edged abstract designs with  pure fields of colour, often using daring combinations.
  • Silkscreen - flower forms -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and  "Landscape"in blue crayon
    19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (50 x 60 cms).


    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999

    Produced in an edition of 12


    Flowers were a subject which pre-occupied Guthrie from the mid 1930's to the late 1960's.  During the 1960's she produced a series of "Flowerscapes" in a Neo Romantic vien.

    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  

  • Original collage design Camelot 2 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£1,800


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Gouache and collage
    9 x 11 13/16 in. (23 x 30 cm).

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44


    In the 1970's Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  This is the original design for Camelot 2, a print which she produced in an edition of 18.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series. 
    Provenance: The Artist's FamilyGouache and collage
    23 x 30 cm

    Provenance: The Artist's Family
  • Poppies with blow paint -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£650


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Signed in pencil
    inscribed Poppies on reverse, 35 gns,
    Kathleen Guthrie 6 Mall Studios Tasker Road NW3
    Pen and ink and watercolour

    13 x 8 7/8 in. (33 x 22.5 cm).

    Flowers were a subject which pre-occupied Guthrie from the mid 1930's to the late 1960's.

  • Original design for grey squares on brown, late 1960's -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£1,400


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Gouache
    15 x 7 7/8 in. (38 x 20 cm).

    Provenance: The Artist's Family
  • Original design for 5 squares, late 1960's -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£1,500


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Gouache and collage
    9 1/2 x 14 3/8 in. (24 x 36.5 cm).

    Provenance: The Artist's Family
  • Waves -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Mounted
    Gouache
    19 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (49.5 x 24 cm).
  • Original design for white red and blue circles in square, collage, circa 1940 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£3,000


    Presentation: Framed
    Paper collage and paint
    9 1/2 x 13 in. (24 x 33 cm).

    It is likely that this collage dates to the late 1930's when Kathleen Guthrie met Cecil Stephenson, (who she married in 1941).  The influence of the Circle group whose activities centered on the Mall Studio's, where Stephenson lived, were still potent.  Although, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth  moved to Cornwall in 1939 Henry Moore replaced them as Cecil and Kathleen's immediate neighbour, taking over the lease at no. 7 Malls Studios and Piet Mondrian became a regular visitor, living during most of the year in Parkhill Road.  Alexander Calder had also been a regular visitor to Cecil's studio for five months in 1938/9 and one of his mobiles, acquired by Cecil,  remained hanging in the studio.
  • Collage - red and white contruction on grey, late 1930's -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£2,800


    Presentation: Framed
    Paper collage and paint on a grey ground
    9 1/2 x 13 in. (24 x 33 cm).

    It is likely that this collage dates to the late 1930's when Kathleen Guthrie met Cecil Stephenson, (who she married in 1941).  The influence of the Circle group whose activities centered on the Mall Studio's, where Stephenson lived, were still potent.  Although, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth  moved to Cornwall in 1939 Henry Moore replaced them as Cecil and Kathleen's immediate neighbour, taking over the lease at no. 7 Malls Studios and Piet Mondrian became a regular visitor, living during most of the year in Parkhill Road.  Alexander Calder had also been a regular visitor to Cecil's studio for five months in 1938/9 and one of his mobiles, acquired by Cecil,  remained hanging in the studio.
  • Waves -
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    Presentation: Mounted
    Gouache
    13 3/4 x 10 in. (35 x 25.4 cm).
  • Organic form - grey and brown -
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    Presentation: Mounted
    Gouache
  • original design - organic form, grey and beige -
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    Presentation: Mounted
    Gouache
  • Original design - organic form, grey and biege -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Gouache
    10 x 8 in. (25 x 20 cm)

  • Red crop, circa 1960 -
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    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Gouache
    6 3/4 x 8 11/16 in. (17 x 22 cm).

    Flowers were a subject which pre-occupied Guthrie from the mid 1930's to the late 1960's.  During the 1960's she produced a series of "Flowerscapes" in a Neo Romantic vien.

  • Red crop, 1960 -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Gouache
    6 3/4 x 8 11/16 in. (17 x 22 cm).

    Flowers were a subject which pre-occupied Guthrie from the mid 1930's to the late 1960's.  During the 1960's she produced a series of "Flowerscapes" in a Neo Romantic vien.

  • Flowerscape III, (Schizostylis) -
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    Presentation: Framed
    inscirbed with title on reverse
    Oil on board 20 x 24 in. (51 x 61 cm).
    Provenance: The Artists Estate

    The influence of Winifred Nicholson, who she was acquainted with via her second husband Cecil Stephenson, is strongly apparant in this work.  Flowers were a subject which pre-occupied Guthrie from the mid 1930's to the late 1960's. 

  • Uprights (unititled), mid 1960's -
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    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled, From a tempera painting by John Cecil Stephenson 1936, screenprint by Kathleen Guthrie.  Painting bought by Anthony D'Offay
    18 1/2 x 14 3/16 in. (47 x 36 
    cm). (image size)

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, p. 43

    Issue in an edition of 14

    Guthrie was one of the most gifted silk screen print makers of her generation.   In what might be seen as a posthumous collaboration, either shortly before or after the death of her husband Cecil Stephenson, she  reproduced, as silk screens, three of Stephensons iconic Abstracts from 1936, 1937 and 1938.  Inspired by this experiment Guthrie embarked,  in the  late 1960's,  on her Camelot prints, a series of bold hard edged abstract designs with  pure fields of colour, often using daring combinations.
  • Four Colours -
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    Presentation: Unmounted
    Silkscreen,
    Signed and titled in pencil
    22 x 30 in. (56 x 76 cm).

    Printed in an edition of 10

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44

    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Red on blue, circa 1960 -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Gouache on paper, 7 x 9 1/4 in. (18 x 23.5cm.)
    (10 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. (26 x 31.5cm.) framed)
  • Bathing Baby, circa 1950 -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Oil on canvas,
    titled in pencil to reverse

    20 x 24 ins. (51 x 61 cm)

    Provenance: Marjorie Guthrie
    Literature: A Poet's Eye, The paintings of Kathleen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway
  • Ambience, 1966 -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Oil on canvas.
    11 13/16 x 30 5/16 in. (30 x 77 cm.)


    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 42

    At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  During the 1960's her work was characterised by a textured, soft edged and gently radiating palette; 18 such paintings were included in her London show at the Drian Gallery of 1966.
  • Original design for Four Colours, Brown and Grey, -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Gouache
    23 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. (60 x 70 cm).

    Unique Artist's proof

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44


    In the 1970's  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceeded them.
  • Camelot 2 -
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    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Gouache
    9 x 11 13/16 in. (23 x 30 cm).

    Provenance: the Artist's family
    Literature:  A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathlenen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway,Cartmel Press, 1999, illustated p. 44


    In the 1970's Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her "Camelot" series.  This is the original design for Camelot 2, a print which she produced in an edition of 18.  Although the prints were usually preceeded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin - by the early 1970's she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylized decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960's,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960's she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband's work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930's (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series. 
    Provenance: The Artist's Family
  • Portrait head -
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    Presentation: Mounted
    Watercolour over pencil
  • Abstract with wild flowers  circa 1950 -
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    Presentation: Unmounted
    Watercolour, gouache and collage
    7 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (18.5 x 22 cm.)

    Provenance: the artist’s estate.

    Flowers were a subject which pre-occupied Guthrie from the mid 1930's to the late 1960's.  During the 1960's she produced a series of "Flowerscapes" in a Neo Romantic vien.

    Framed in a hand coloured glazed mount.

    Trained at the Slade School of Art under Myles Tonks, and married to fellow painter Robin Guthrie, Kathleen Guthrie’s pre-war work is firmly figurative. Her abstract painting dates to the post-war period, after she had divorced Guthrie and married the painter Cecil Stephenson  in 1941. Although clearly influenced by Stephenson, she retained a distinctive luminous, soft palette, and her brushwork remained very consistent, avoiding the hard edges and sometimes vigorous impasto of his work. A solo exhibition of her work was held at the Drian Gallery in London in 1966, in which these works are likely to have been included.

    We are grateful to Marjorie Guthrie for her assistance.



  • Mousehole, Cornwall, c.1950 -
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    Presentation: Framed
    Oil on board
    20 1/4 x 24 1/4 ins (51.5 x 61.5cm.)
    Provenance: The Artists Estate


    Mousehole (pronounced "Mowzel") is one of Cornwall's most picturesque hamlets; a stunning collection of yellow-lichened houses, built from the local finely grained Lamorna granite, huddled together around the inner edge of the harbour - protected from the force of the sea coming across Mounts Bay by two sturdy breakwaters.
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