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HENRY SCOTT TUKE (BRITISH, 1858-1929)
Wine Carriers, St Tropez
signed and dated 'H.S. TUKE 1926' (lower left); inscribed 'No. 1 Wine Carriers St Tropez/ H.S. Tuke/ 5 P- Road, NW3' (on an old label attached to the backboard)
watercolour
36 x 25.5cm
Provenance
T.F Stanley Smith by 1932 (copy of letter confirming ownership attached to the backboard);
Sale, Wilkinsons Auctioneers, Doncaster, 12th October 1997, lot 372, where acquired by the present owner
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, 1926
| Estimate: | £3,000 - £5,000 |
Literature
The Registers of Henry Scott Tuke, Annotated by
B.D. Price, 1983, R1158;
Truro, Royal Cornwall Museum, Catching The Light -
A Retrospective of Henry Scott Tuke, 10th May - 2nd July 2008, plate 144
Footnote
This vibrant and highly detailed view was painted on Tuke’s
1926 trip to the South of France. He had been staying in Cassis with Renny Stradling, a friend from England with whom he had travelled to Algiers the year before, but was left uninspired by the riviera until he arrived in St. Tropez. He recorded in his diary, 'This is the first place that has really excited me since leaving home.' In her memoir Tuke’s sister Maria
recalled from his letters, ‘He worked with enthusiasm all the time, sometimes
on the quay and others on the balcony. These were the best pictures of
the whole trip. They show the wine boats ranged along the quay with sunny
houses beyond.’
Condition Report
the sheet is sound; one tiny media spot in the sky, upper right; otherwise good, clean condition with strong colour. Framed and under glass; unexamined out of frame.