HENRY SCOTT TUKE (BRITISH, 1858-1929)
Moored Schooners at Leghorn
signed and dated 'H.S. TUKE 1904' (lower right), inscribed '19' (on exhibition label attached to the backboard)
watercolour on paper
24.5 x 34.5cm
Provenance
Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells, New Bond Street, London;
Sale, JP Humberts, 17th March 2008, lot 262 where acquired by the present owner
Exhibited
Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells, Along the Italian Riviera (From Marseilles to Leghorn), June - July 1904, no.19
| Estimate: |
£3,000 - £5,000
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Hammer price:
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£6,000 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Literature
B.D. Price, The Registers of Henry Scott Tuke, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 2nd Edition 1983, R427 no.19 'Group at Leghorn'
Condition Report
The sheet is sound with strong original colour; under glass and held in original 'Falmouth Frame'; ready to hang
The present work will be on view at Cromwell Place, SW7 2JE, 21 & 22 March, 11am-5pm
