Bidspirit auction | Paul Slay and Others, A

Paul Slay and Others, A Collection of Paintings, Prints, and Decorative Items (Signed) - An assortment of framed and unframed artworks and decorative pieces including advertising items and topographical prints. The collection features an oil on board study of a kingfisher, signed Paul Slay to the lower left. Also included is a large print depicting a standing chestnut horse in a landscape with other horses visible in the distance, set within a stained wood frame. A decorative Coca-Cola advertising mirror is present, featuring early 20th-century style graphics and text including The Ideal Brain Tonic, 5c, and At All Soda Fountains & Carbonated in Bottles. Further items include an oil on board of a lighthouse on a rocky coast, a monochrome topographical print with a mount inscribed Street Roehampton, a printed plaque detailing the history of the Blackbird Inn of Ponteland, and a silhouette-style graphic of three zebras. The group also contains two unframed oil on board studies: a portrait of an elderly woman wearing a beaded necklace and a figurative interior scene of a woman with long hair. Completing the lot are a mountain landscape print at sunset and a small framed oil of swans on a lake.