Bathers

Details

Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (1880-1969)
Bathers
signed 'W Russell Flint' (lower left)
black and white chalks on blue eighteenth century French paper
9¾ x 15¾ in. (24.7 x 40 cm.)

Provenance

J. Posnansky.
Lord and Lady White of Hull, New York.

Literature

Sir W. Russell Flint, Drawings by Sir William Russell Flint, P.R.W.S., R.A., London, 1950, pp. 157-8, pl. 70.

Exhibited

London, Fine Art Society, Drawings by Sir William Russell Flint R.A., January 1951, no. 33.
London, Royal Academy, Diploma Gallery, Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., October-December 1962, no. 212.

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Lot Essay

Flint (op. cit., p. 28) commented on his use of antique paper, 'Many drawings of mine have been made on beautiful antique paper, old French, old Italian, old Dutch, Hungarian, Spanish, English and Irish. Colour, texture, 'feel' are subtler, more attractive, more simpatica, than in modern papers. They are on pages from ancient account and sketch books, old albums, some of immense size and in elaborately tooled bindings, and on odd sheets collected here and there or given to me by friends'.

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