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The penguins are possibly standing in front of snow houses. Date of creation is painted by the creator on the front.

Adamson Collection

Identified works created in Adamson's studios

Works by Goullet, Nancy

Colourful fish swimming among rocks on the sea bed

A woman walking along a desert road carrying a bundle on her head, passing a village

A woman wearing a red conical hat and cape kneeling on a purple carpet amongst white clouds

Various objects and symbols on a light grey ground

A man, woman and child with a pram in the foreground looking at an explosion behind a black bar fence

Various objects, symbols and figures on a light grey ground

Various objects surrounded by a yellow line

A man being carried downstream in a river with a fire-breathing dragon to the right and two men wearing black robes running away to the left

Four human figures in different postures, a balancing scale, a green snake, a blindfolded head, and a woman on a shore, on a yellow ground

Various objects and human figures on a light grey ground

Two women and a man seated inside a train carriage, while a man wearing a blue beret sits on the floor

A gallows, a yellow circle, a beacon and a sheet of paper on plinths, with a weathervane and a large eye in the centre

Silhouette of a human figure with two doctors either side hammering nails into their head

A spider's web suspended between thin branches, and a bush below

A depiction of the act of Sati

Various scenes including a child standing next to a person playing a piano, a shop keeper at a counter, and two people travelling in  a horse-drawn cart

A human figure in black on a dark grey ground between two tall dark orange shapes, with a woman holding an object looking up at him

An open eye pierced by nails with arm held aloft, a mouth and a multicoloured square

A person standing with arms raised with head obscured by a cuboid shape

A human figure with arms raised amongst waves, and a pair of crutches in the foreground

Various objects and symbols on a light grey ground divided by a black line

Various objects on a cream ground

A person seen from behind seated at a desk or altar, and a person burying their face into a pillow below

A younger and older woman and a boy resting on a walking stick, on a yellow ground

A person suspended on a rope over a fire

Various objects, body parts and human figures on a light brown ground

A pair of feet in shackles, with a hand holding a knife above, divided by a black line

A map, a steamship, tickets, a passport and a tongue on a light green ground

A brown river traversed by a rust-coloured strip in which men are fishing, surrounded by trees and with a gated fence below

A bleeding hand stretched through a hole in a broken window pane

A woman arriving with a suitcase at the check-in desk of a hotel

A group of women in an art gallery looking at a large painting of a woman being executed by soldiers

A crowd throwing sharp objects at a woman hiding behind a tree-trunk

A nude woman climbing a cliff chained to a weight with a fire behind

A woman in the process of being immured or released from immurement

Two women in a living room, one cleaning the table and the other answering the phone

A sailing ship beached on a shore worked on by a mechanical excavator

An arm, bent at the elbow, emerging from a cloud intersected by a vertical red line

Various objects and a priest intersected by a wavy yellow line and a large black cross

A yellow vertical line with arms on either side wearing boxing gloves and red flames at the base

Two scenes of a black lighthouse, one lit with fireworks in the sky, divided by a white line

A green train hitting a person on a branch of a track, with a large yellow hand to the right

Back of a head with brown hair against a red ground

A pair of hands, one holding a large nail or chisel, a smaller pair of glasses and a laboratory coat to the left

A masked man in black breaking open a green safe, and a man wearing an apron stoking a fire

Outline of a human figure standing in the desert

Two prisoners and a guard in a prison yard surrounded by barbed wire

A human form with a tree emerging from the hands and top of the head

Scenes of a woman in a forest and a figure with arms raised in a grey and white sea, divided by a black line

A large pair of scissors above a person lying in water

A women holding the neck of a seated doctor and a hammer

Human figure in black standing in profile with a snake emerging from mouth and anus

A person lying naked on a rock in the sea with rocks and marine life visible below the water

A woman creating a large black mesh in the foreground and the outline of two people standing next to a large yellow arch in the background

Various objects divided by a vertical red line

A monkey seen from behind climbing a wire fence with a diagonal mesh

A pound-sign on a string, a theatrical stage-set, a wicker hamper and a house

A red and blue bird in flight with a long black line tied to its feet

Two boys practising in a gymnasium, one walking on a balance beam, the other standing on his hands

Head and hands of a person struck on the head lying on a woodworking bench

A black seal balancing a red block on its nose, and a tank firing arrows to the right

Features of a church building and associated objects

A man in a white laboratory coat stood by a door, surrounded by furniture, and a woman at the bottom holding a staff

A white temple in a desert with brown and white hillocks in foreground

A valley in a desert with human figures in black moving towards the viewer

Two people seated inside a palisade prior to execution by immolation

A child crushed by a large block previously suspended from a tree with three children standing around

Two men and a woman fleeing a volcanic eruption

Green and yellow snake, and a nude woman with arms raised and body bound in black and green vines

Cars on a road in darkness with yellow beams of light emerging from headlights

A car at the top of a long, winding road, with yellow beams of light emerging from headlights, and a woman walking toward the car in the foreground

Four scenes divided by a jagged line

An orange triangle with a sequence of multicolour numbers emanating from the centre

"The voices are coming between us"

A woman seated within a transparent cylinder inside a room with an open door, through which is seen a tree in a garden

A humanoid figure in a large cloud sending down thunder and lightning, a large rock and a giant axe on to a village below

A large fireball heading towards the ground, the outline of a witch holding a broomstick in the sky above and other human figures on the ground below

Silhouette of eight people seated on parallel lines towards a male doctor above

Two women and a man, one wearing a long blue dress and holding a baby

Two people in a pink cell, with a scene of a car driving past a crowd underneath

Various objects on a yellow ground divided by a jagged black line

A sailing boat, a woman manacled in a prison cell, a fish in the sea, and other subjects

Landscape of fields, rivers and a red cliff with buildings in the background

A black dragon amongst fire

A black whorl on a black stem attached to a pink flower on a green stem

A well in a mountainous desert

A woman being burnt at the stake with an ordinance against witchcraft to the right

The open mouth of a shark

Two small human figures in the branches of a tree

Two penguins standing, with a hand holding an opened sardine can in the foreground

Two penguins standing, with a hand holding an opened sardine can in the foreground

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