The Thames at Hammersmith

Details

Carel Weight, R.A. (1908-1997)
The Thames at Hammersmith
signed and inscribed 'CAREL WEIGHT/RIVER AT HAMMERSMITH/£28 0 0/7 Ladbroke Sq W11' (on a label attached to the frame)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 November 1991, lot 96, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Royal Society of British Artists, Summer Exhibition, 1947, no. 13.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Carel Weight studied at Hammersmith School of Art from 1926 to 1929, and his best-known work portrayed daily life in the London boroughs of Hammersmith, Battersea and Clapham. Weight painted the present work from Julian Trevelyan's studio on Durham Wharf which looked down the river towards Hammersmith Bridge.

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