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ERIC RAVILIOUS (BRITISH 1903-1942), NEW YEAR SNOW
英国
2023年10月04日 开拍 / 2023年10月02日 截止委托
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ERIC RAVILIOUS (BRITISH 1903-1942) NEW YEAR SNOW Watercolour and pencil Signed (lower left) 46 x 56cm (18 x 22 in.) Painted in 1938. The present work was painted in Capel-y-Ffin, Breconshire. Provenance: Private Collection, Sir Duncan Oppenheim Sale, Christie's, London, The Collection of the Late Sir Duncan Oppenheim, 6 June 2003, lot 91, sold by order of the executors, where purchased by Robert Kime Exhibited: London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Recent Watercolours by Eric Ravilious, 11 May-3 June 1939, no. 1 (18 guineas) Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Eric Ravilious, An Exhibition of Watercolours, Wood Engravings, Illustrations, Designs, 1958, no. 94, lent by Mr & Mrs D. Oppenheim London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Eric Ravilious Memorial Exhibition, 1948-9, no. 1 Colchester, The Minories, Eric Ravilious, 1972, no. 22; and touring London, Imperial War Museum, Eric Ravilious Centenary Exhibition, 2003, illus. in exhibition catalogue Literature: Freda Constable, The England of Eric Ravilious, Scolar Press, London, 1982, pl. 21 Helen Binyon, Eric Ravilious, Memoir of an Artist, Lutterworth Press, London, 1983, p.105, illus. Anne Ullmann et al, Eric Ravilious: Landscape, Letters and Design, Fleece Press, 2008, ill. p. 437 Alan Powers, Eric Ravilious, Imagined Realities, Imperial War Museum, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2012, pl. no. 46 illus James Russell, Ravilious in Pictures, A Travelling Artist, Mainstone Press, 2012, p.4, illus. Susie Hodge, Eric Ravilious, Masterpieces of Art, Flame Tree Illustrated, 2015, p. 54 illus This atmospheric watercolour depicts a picturesque valley in the Welsh borders and at the same time shows us a master at work. Early in 1938 Ravilious travelled to Capel-y-Ffin, a hamlet in the Honddu valley not far from the ruins of Llanthony Priory. Having concentrated on illustration and design for a couple of years he was at last free to paint watercolours, and to take his time doing so. He had booked a room in the hamlet's solitary farmhouse for two months, and looked forward to exploring a landscape that was wilder than his native Sussex. Steeped as he was in the English watercolour tradition, Ravilious was well aware that JMW Turner, John Sell Cotman and other luminaries had painted the valley before him, although those earlier Romantic artists had tended to focus on the ruined abbey. A more recent visitor was artist-poet David Jones, who stayed with Eric Gill and his entourage in Capel-y-Ffin in the 1920s. Ravilious admired the strong modern line and delicate palette of Jones's watercolours, which present subjects similar to this but in a very different style (see Lot 56 David Jones 'Spirit in an Orchard' In New Year Snow Ravilious presents a recognisable view south-east along the valley, towards the distinctive buttress of Loxidge Tump. He was no topographer, however, and here he has redirected the course of the river so that it bends across the composition, roughly mirroring the curve of hills against the sky. Water, land and clouds are painted with remarkable economy, with only the lightest of washes across the hilltops. Mostly the watercolour has been applied in single strokes, whether taut and wiry or roughly scuffed with a dry brush. White paper showing through suggests here the texture of grassland dusted with snow and there the shimmer of moving water, while simultaneously conveying a feeling of light-heartedness and freedom. In place of the ruins sought out by Turner's generation, we have the kind of man-made object that delighted Ravilious: a sheep feeder on wheels set centre stage and at a precarious angle. This positioning and the clarity of the draughtsmanship lend a slightly dreamlike quality to the scene. In May 1939 Ravilious held his third exhibition of watercolours at the prestigious London gallery of Arthur Tooth and Son, the show that cemented his reputation. In The Observer, Jan Gordon praised Ravilious's extraordinary technique, which made the most mundane object 'appear as something magic, almost mystic, distilled out of the ordinary everyday.' Ravilious chose twenty-seven watercolours for the exhibition; in the catalogue New Year Snow is No. 1. James Russell Art Historian, Author and Curator Condition Report: Unexamined out of glazed frame. Appears to be in good original condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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