Two Steamers in an Estuary

Details

Alfred Wallis (1855-1942)
Two Steamers in an Estuary
oil on paper laid on card
13 x 14¾ in. (33 x 37.5 cm.)

Provenance

Adrian Stokes, and by descent.
with Crane Kalman Gallery, London.
with Rona Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner in 1995.

Exhibited

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate, Alfred Wallis, May - June 1968, no. 86: this exhibition travelled to York, York City Art Gallery, July 1968; Aberdeen, Aberdeen Art Gallery, August 1968; and Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, August - September 1968.

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Lot Essay

'Wallis painted over the original picture when it was still in its frame: examination of the edges suggests that it was probably a landscape of the farms on the road from St Ives to Zennor. The shore line at the top of the picture is pure Wallis' (see exhibition catalogue, Alfred Wallis, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1968).

Adrian Stokes (1902-1972), the previous owner of this work, was a British art critic, writer and painter. Stokes frequently supplied the artist with painting materials, and he formed a large collection of his paintings. He was a close friend of Ben Nicholson, and Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth stayed with the Stokes when they moved to St Ives in 1939.

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