Lot 195
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Sir William Russell Flint, R.A. (1880-1970)
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Sir William Russell Flint, R.A. (1880-1970)

Merlin's grotto

Details
Sir William Russell Flint, R.A. (1880-1970)
Merlin's grotto
signed 'W.RUSSELL FLINT.' (lower right) and further signed 'W.Russell Flint.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
19¾ x 30 in. (50.1 x 76.2 cm.)
Provenance
with the Fine Art Society, London.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Discussing Pauline's Grotto, a watercolour of 1943, the artist recalled 'the chance discovery of a beautiful two hundred year-old grotto at Pains Hills, only twenty miles from London, made me grotto-minded for a time. I painted it within and without and then enjoyed myself inventing pictorial grottoes of my own'. (See W. Russell Flint, Royal Academy of Arts Diploma Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1962, p. 8').

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