Night scene

Details

Alan Reynolds (b. 1926)
Night scene
pencil, watercolour, bodycolour and oil on card
15¾ x 19 5/8 in. (40 x 50 cm.)
Executed between 1948-1952.

Provenance

The Estate of the late Raymond Watkinson.

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Lot Essay

The artist has commented that the present work is a study for an imaginary landscape for a composition that was never fulfilled, and was executed while the artist studied at the Woolwich Polytechnic between 1948 and 1952.

The previous owner of this work, Raymond Watkinson (1913-2003), was an art historian, lecturer, teacher and typographer, and the author of several books on Victorian art, including William Morris as a Designer (1967); Pre-Raphaelite Art and Design (1970); and Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle (1991).

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