LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

77.48 in. (196.80 cm.) (height) by 77.99 in. (198.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'F B' (lower right)

Exhibited:

London, New Gallery, 1902. Venice, Venice Biennale, 1903. St. Louis, St. Louis International Exposition, 1904, no. 34., illustrated. Venice, Venice Biennale, 1914. London, 184 Queen's Gate, Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Frank Brangwyn, 1924, cat. 58. Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Exhibition of Frank Brangwyn, 2010, no. 23.

Literature:

'Some Paintings and Sculpture at the London Spring Exhibitions', The Studio, June 1902, p. 38, illustrated. Frank Rinder, 'The Art of Frank Brangwyn', Art Journal, March 1903, pp. 85-86. Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Spirit of the Age, London, 1905, pl. 8, illustrated. Walter Shaw Sparrow, Frank Brangwyn and his Work, London, 1915, p. 95, no. 231. Herbert Furst, The Decorative Art of Frank Brangwyn, London, 1924, p. 214. Amelia Defries, 'Frank Brangwyn R.A., Master Craftsman', American Magazine of Art, November 1924, p. 562, illustrated. Philip Macer-Wright, Brangwyn: A Study of Genius at Close Quarters, London, 1940, p. 67. Vincent Galloway, The Oils and Murals of Sir Frank Brangwyn R.A., Leigh-on-Sea, 1962, no. 138. Libby Horner, 'Brangwyn and the Horton House Mystery', The British Art Journal, Autumn 2005, p. 41, illustrated. David Boswell, 'Frank Brangwyn and his patrons' in Libby Horner and Gillian Naylor (eds), Frank Brangwyn 1867-1956, Leeds Museums and Galleries, Groeningemuseum/Arents House, 2007 (2006), p. 165, illustrated. Mina Oya, Libby Horner, Tim Barringer, Sachiko Oguma, Frank Brangwyn, Yomiuri Shimbun/NMWA, 2010, p. 60, no. 60, illustrated.

Provenance:

Sir Alfred East, R.A. George Harold Winterbottom, JP. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's London, 4 November 1992, lot 8. with Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh.