The Waterfall

Details

James Dickson Innes (1887-1914)
The Waterfall
oil on panel
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1912

Provenance

Horace de Vere Cole.
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1947.

Literature

C. Hampton, Some of the Sources for the Art of J.D. Innes, B.A. Thesis, Cambridge University, 1970, no.97.

Exhibited

London, National Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Works by J.D. Innes, November 1921, no.83.
London, Chenil Gallery, Watercolours, Drawings and Paintings by the late James Dickson Innes, April-June 1923, no.118.
Southampton, Art Gallery, James Dickson Innes 1887-1914, September-October 1977, no.93 (illustrated): this exhibition travelled to Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, November-December 1977; London, Fine Art Society, December 1977-January 1978; and Manchester, City Art Gallery, March-April 1978.

Lot Essay

Innes spent the summer of 1912 painting with Augustus John at Nant-ddu in North Wales. The location of the waterfall is most probably Arenig which together with Llyn Treweryn and Llyn Arenig Fawr form a triangle in which Innes and John painted most of their Welsh landscapes.
(see J. Hoole, Southampton Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 1977, no.93).

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