Three Fishermen

Details

Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
Three Fishermen
signed and dated 'H. Harvey. 09' (lower left)
oil on canvas
17½ x 20 in. (44.5 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance

Queens Hotel, Penzance, their sale; Phillips, London, 13 November 1984, lot 64.
with Richard Green, London.

Literature

C. Fox, Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn School, Newton Abbot, 1993, p. 75, illustrated.
K. McConkey et al., Exhibition catalogue, Harold Harvey Painter of Cornwall, Penzance, Penlee House, 2001, pp. 19, 20, 21, 66, 91 and 140, no. 118, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Painted in 1909, the present work depicts three Cornish fishermen seated against a stone wall, probably the Old Quay at Newlyn. Although the men depicted are typical Harvey subjects, familiar and local, the painting demonstrates new developments in his work.

'He had taken heed from the debates about Impressionism and was preoccupied with enveloping light. He was alive to the potential of vivid colour and an active paint surface, even though this was consistently restrained, and in Three Fishermen moves to a clear marquetry of shapes and colours' (K. McConkey et al., op. cit., p. 21).

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