The Seine near Tancarville

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EDWARD SEAGO (BRITISH, 1910-1974)
The Seine near Tancarville
signed 'Edward Seago; (lower left) and further inscribed '500/ THE SEINE NEAR TANCARVILLE/ 12' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour on paper
15 1/4 x 22 in. (38.6 x 55.8 cm.)

Provenance

with King's Court Galleries, London.

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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Seago made eight major painting trips to France in the 1950s and 1960s, on his yacht Capricorn. He often stopped off at Dieppe or at Honfleur in the Seine estuary opposite Le Havre, before sailing up the river Seine to Paris.

The barges illustrated in the present lot, on the 25 kilometre Tancarville Canal, were a popular subject for the artist. (J. Reid, Edward Seago: The Landscape art, 1991, p.179).

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