*GABRIEL SUMMERS (b.1962) The Tightrope a prostitute with a pipe, with a lady doing the can-can on a tightrope in the background, signed and dated 'Nov/Dec 95' verso, inscribed with title on label verso, oil on canvas 60 x 48cm Gabriel Summers, painter, etcher and dealer-researcher, was born in Dorset, the grandson of the artists Gerald and Nora Summers. Summers' interest in art was encouraged as a child and he won an art scholarship to Canford School, 1975-80, where he was taught by Robin J Noscoe. He graduated in the history of art at Reading University, 1980-83, and gained his masters in that subject at the Courtauld Institute, 1983-84, concentrating on British romantic art, a continuing interest. In 1990, Summers was featured in the episode 'In Search of Bohemia', part of the BBC television 'Abroad in Britain' series, with Jonathan Meades. Group shows included 'Nudes for St Valentine', Bartley Drey Gallery, 1996; 'Contemporary British Art', The Millinery Works, 2003; and 'Little Venice Drawing Group', The Clifton Gallery, 2003. He had solo exhibitions at Odd Fellows Hall, Wimborne, 1997, and Canford School Library, 1999. *Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot.