Syd Walker

by **flying free** June 22nd 2010, 7:48 pm

This is not the kind of painting I normally choose. I like big abstract brightly coloured usually and this is very different to anything in our house, paintings or ceramics/glass wise really. However I was at a small auction in our village and fell for it. It has a fabulous attraction, it glows. I always think it looks very 1920' German the way it is painted however most people confidently tell me it's French :) . Chatting away to a friend I turned back to realise I'd missed it. However the person who'd bought it overheard me moaning and offered to sell it to me for £1 more than he'd paid for it.

Recently we did take it to auction. It didn't make it's reserve and they suggested lowering the reserve slightly and reselling. However I literally took it off the wall there and then and brought it home again.
Syd Walker is now an MBE.

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