Albert Goodwin, R.W.S. (1845-1932)

The Jungfrau from Wengen, Switzerland

細節

Albert Goodwin, R.W.S. (1845-1932)
The Jungfrau from Wengen, Switzerland
signed and dated 'Albert Goodwin 1912' (lower right) and inscribed 'The Jungfrau. fm Wengen.' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic within the artist's frame lines, on brown paper
11 x 15 in. (28 x 38.1 cm.)

來源

with Chris Beetles, London.

展覽

probably London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, Summer 1912, no. 140.

拍品專文

On Monday 8 February 1915 Goodwin wrote: 'I can paint Switzerland better when it is a somewhat faraway memory....Alfred Hunt I remember once saying his experience was similar, he found he could paint better his ideal of place when he was far from it and in surroundings, such as Campden Hill (where he made the remark), of comparative ugliness' (The Diary of Albert Goodwin, R.W.S., (1883-1927), London, 1934, p. 295).
In 1912 Goodwin spent the first few months of the year travelling in the West Indies. There is no record of his visiting Switzerland that year and so it is likely that the present watercolour is 'an old memory' (Diary, 1915, op.cit., p. 295) of the Jungfrau.

Wengen is one of the most fashionable resorts in the Bernese Oberland, it affords superb views of the Jungfraujoch through the opening of the Lower Ltschine Valley.