These Days are Ours - a long sold out limited edition from gallery favourite, artist Sam Toft.
Ernest and Violet head off for a day out, accompanied of course by the ever faithful Doris. Doris the Jack Russell terrier isn't quite so well behaved for Mrs Mustard - she's got her on a lead whist Ernest carries the basket. Mrs M has yet to learn the humbug trick - Ernest always has a pocket full of humbugs, Doris' absolute favourite thing!
Sam’s characters, ‘The Mustards’ have a legion of loyal fans. She has described herself as their Official Picture Maker and Story Teller for the past 20 years. They are her imaginary friends, helping her make sense of a world that sometimes seems stranger than fiction; never more so than current times.
Ernest and his dear lady wife Violet live in a not-so damp basement flat on the Brighton Hove border, with Doris, their grumpy and rather portly Jack Russell Terrier, and an ever increasing menagerie of eccentric pets. They inhabit a seaside world of faded ice cream colours where the breeze is always blowing and life is utterly delicious.
We are thrilled to offer for sale a beautiful collection of long sold out Sam Toft limited editions.
The current owner is reluctantly selling, wanting to re-home the pictures somewhere they will be appreciated and loved. Where better to bring them than The Braithwaite Gallery in York, northern home of all things Tofty for more than two decades, and Sam’s biggest fans!
These Days are Ours: image size approximately 175x175mm with outer frame dimensions of approximately 360x377mm.
The print appears to be good condition (nb: we have not removed it from the frame to investigate further); it presented in the publisher's original mount, complete with V-groove detail, and framed in a distressed champagne coloured cube profile moulding with a black outer edge. There are some chips in the outer edges and corners of the frame (see photos).
This is Edition 90 of 395, from a collection of Sam's work published by Collier Dobson. The Certificate of Authenticity is on the reverse of the frame.
We can only ship framed items within the UK, however if you would like the picture shipping internationally, we can of course take the picture out of the frame. Please get in touch via the ‘contact us’ option at the top of the page for a shipping quote.
As with all secondary market work, the print and frame are not new, and are therefore ‘sold as seen.’ We have endeavoured to describe to condition as accurately as possible.
©️The Artist
GJ