Lot 403

HENRY SCOTT TUKE (BRITISH, 1858-1929)

Gondola on the Venetian Lagoon
signed with initials and dated 'H.S.T. 1899' (lower left)
watercolour
10.5 x 13cm

Provenance
B.C. Sarginson
B.D. Price, purchased on 27 March 1983
Private collection, UK

Exhibited
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, no. A502

Estimate: £700 - £1,000
Hammer price: £3,000
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Literature

David Wainwright and Catherine Dinn, Henry Scott Tuke 1858-1929 Under Canvas, Sarema Press 1989, R315, Illustrated no.59.

B.D. Price, The Registers of Henry Scott Tuke, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 2nd Edition 1983, R315-320

The Diaries of Henry Scott Tuke, transcribed at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, annotated by B.D. Price; 4th June 1899 'Out about 7 & sketched boats with Roberto in the sandolo with Roberto.  To the Lido as usual.  Supper in the gondola, anchored to see the fireworks, for the national festa.  The Warrens to lunch.'


Condition report

The sheet is sound and clean, no sign of fading; good condition overall; framed and under glass; unexamined out of frame.

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