The Ramparts of Montreuil, Picardy

Details

Philip Wilson Steer, O.M. (1860-1942)
The Ramparts of Montreuil, Picardy
signed lower left PW Steer, signed again and inscribed on a label attached to the reverse Dear Madam/I beg to acknowledge/the cheque which I/received from PS .../and I hope you will/like the picture./I call it "The ramparts/of Montreuil" an old/town in Picardy./I have the honour to remain/Yours faithfully/P. Wilson Steer'
oil on canvas
24 x 24in. (61 x 61cm.)
Painted in 1889

Provenance

The Knowles Family
Anon. sale; Phillips London, 16 Jun 1987, lot 50, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

D.S. MacColl, The Life, Work and Setting of Philip Wilson Steer, London, 1945, p.190.
B. Laughton, Philip Wilson Steer, Oxford, 1971, no.59, pl.33.

Exhibited

Brussels, Les XX, 1891, no.9.
Leeds, Temple Newsam, Wilson Steer Memorial Exhibition, March-May 1994, no.28.
London, Arts Council, Tate Gallery, Philip Wilson Steer, 1960, no.10.

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Lot Essay

Steer visited Montreuil, a few miles inland from Boulogne and Étaples in the summer of 1889, where he painted the present work and Poplars in Montreuil (private collection), both early studies in Impressionism (see B. Laughton, op. cit, p.21).

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