LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

24.21 in. (61.50 cm.) (height) by 18.27 in. (46.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'G CLAUSEN' (lower left); titled and signed 'Holiday Time./G CLAUSEN.' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1886, p. 46, no. 182. Liverpool, The Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition of Pictures in Oil and Water-colours, 6 September-4 December 1886, no. 214. London, Thomas McLean's Gallery, Spring Exhibition, opened 21 March 1893, no. 14.

Literature:

H. Blackburn, Grosvenor Notes, 1886, London, 1886, p. 46. 'Autumn Exhibitions,' The Art Journal, London, 1886, p. 318. 'The Grosvenor Gallery, Concluding Notice,' The Illustrated London News, vol. LXXXVIII, no. 2457, London, 22 May 1886, p. 555. 'Landscape at the Exhibitions,' The Saturday Review, vol. 61, no. 1596. London, 29 May 1886, p. 740. C. Monkhouse, 'Fine Art, The Grosvenor Gallery, Second Notice,' The Academy, no. 735, London, 5 June 1886, p. 404. ‘The Grosvenor Gallery, Second Notice’, Leeds Mercury, 27 May 1886, p. 8. ‘Walker Art Gallery – General Survey of the Autumn Exhibition’, The Liverpool Mercury, 4 September 1886, p. 6. ‘Art Notes’, The Liverpool Mercury, 6 September 1886, p. 5. ‘Our London Correspondence’, The Glasgow Herald, 18 March 1893, p. 7. ‘McLean’s Gallery’, The Manchester Guardian, 20 March, 1893, p. 6. ‘Mr McLean’s Gallery’, The Morning Post, 29 March 1893, p. 4. 'Exhibitions, Maclean's Gallery,' The Artist, vol. 14, no. 161, London, 1 April 1893, p. 124. C. Newall, The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibitions, Cambridge, 1995, p. 62. C. Denney, At the Temple of Art: the Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-1890, Madison, NJ, 2000, p. 175. K. McConkey, George Clausen and the Picture of English Rural Life, London, 2012, pp. 71, 73-74, fig. 105, illustrated.

Provenance:

with Charles W. Deschamps, London, circa 1885. with Thomas McLean's Gallery, by 1893. Arthur Jackson, Esq., Heaton Moor, Manchester. His estate sale; Christie's, London, 30 November 1928, lot 68. with M. Newman Ltd., London, acquired at the above sale. Helen Tallmadge Sloper (1885-1957), New Britain, CT. By descent to the present owner.