16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European and Sporting Art

 
  Lot 1080
 

1080

Ernest Procter ARA (1885-1935)
"Passing Snow Storm"
Inscribed to artist's label verso, oil on canvas, 176cm by 245cm (unframed)

Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1912, no.189

Provenance: By descent in the Artist's family

Not Sold

 

Original canvas which is entirely adrift of stretcher along lower edge with a degree of relatively minor losses to extremities and both corners however lower right hand corner in a slightly more distressed state with some general fraying and folding and buckling of the canvas. The surface is covered in a thick layer of various dark spots/foxing mostly concentrated within the dark grey clouds on the upper left hand side, white chalky splashes (mostly to lower right hand corner) which appear to be easily removable. Other liquid vertical splashes to left hand side centre. Further chalky surface patch immediately above this. Puncture to canvas approx. 0.5cm across above horizon and below far left hand clouds. Further horizontal tear/puncture approx. 10cm from upper edge and 60cm left hand side edge approx. 1-1.5cm in length. Further visible horizontal tears and same level approx. 30cm from centre. Prominent black linear mark within sky just right of upper white clouds approx. 40cm in length. Further black spotting within dark grey area in general upper right hand corner. Rubbing to edges in general. It is our understanding that this canvas has been stored for a number of years in an outbuilding or similar and therefore the condition is consistent with the nature of the environment in which it was stored. We have referred to the most visible/notable condition issue. Be aware of a general distressed state where smaller imperfections may not have been referenced.

 


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Auction: British, European and Sporting Art, 16th Jul, 2022

'In a Ligurian Garden', an important lost work by Henry Herbert La Thangue, is to be sold in the British, European and Sporting Art Sale on 16th July with an estimate of £70,000-100,000 plus buyer's premium. The painting was recently rediscovered in Yorkshire, having been passed down through the family of Sir William Prince-Smith (1898-1964) and his wife Marjorie, manufacturers of textile machinery from Keighley, West Yorkshire.  View lot

Henry Herbert La Thangue RA (1859-1929) was one of the leading exponents of British Impressionism, who had become enamoured with painting 'en plein air' on a youthful painting trip to Brittany in 1881 with friend and fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, one of the founders of the Newlyn School of Painters. On his return to England he settled in Sussex, painting farm labourers in idyllic, rustic surroundings, recording a way of English rural life that was fast being lost to increasing industrialisation.

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Sunday 10 July 11am-4pm, Monday 11 July to Friday 15 July 10am-4pm and morning of sale from 8am. Viewing is open to the public, there is no need to make an appointment.

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