Henry Tonks (1862-1937)

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Henry Tonks (1862-1937)

John Singer Sargent painting

signed lower right By Prof Henry Tonks Slade Prof, signed again with initials, dated and dedicated lower right To Lieut General Sir Aylmer Haldane commanding 6th Army Corps in memory of days spent in that Corps at the most glorious moment in the history of the British Army from H.T. Sept 1918, signed again on the reverse By Professor Tonks Slade Professor, pencil and watercolour on paper laid on card
14¼ x 13¼in. (36 x 33.5cm.)

There is an inscription on a label attached to the backboard by Sir Aylmer Haldane 'Prof Tonks and Mr. John Sargent lived at Arles during part of 1918, when they were occupied in sketching, at a time when I was commanding the VIth British Army Corps in and about that city A. Haldane, General'

Provenance

Gifted to the present owner's father by Lt. Gen. Sir Aylmer Haldane

Lot Essay

In June 1918 Henry Tonks and John Singer Sargent were attached to the Guards Division of the British Army. Sargent was bound for G.H.Q. as the guest of General Haig, and Tonks for Bercelaire. By July they were together again at General Fielding's Headquarters living in an iron hut near Berles au Bois. After three weeks they moved onto Arras.
(See J. Hone, The Life of Henry Tonks, London, 1939, p.143)

Two similar watercolours 'John Sargent painting' were exhibited in London, Tate Gallery, Professor Henry Tonks, Oct.-Nov. 1936, nos.46 & 51

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