Autumn: study for a lunette

細節

Harold Speed (1872-1957)
Autumn: study for a lunette
pencil and watercolour with bodycolour, painted arch
17½ x 32¼ in. (44.5 x 82 cm.)

來源

with Archeus Fine Art, London.

出版

Studio, vol. 15, 1899, p. 159.

注意事項

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拍場告示

Please note the correct dates for this artist should read (1872-1957) and not as stated in the catalogue.

拍品專文

Speed studied in Italy before returning to England in 1895, when he entered the Royal Academy's competition for the best design for a wall decoration in a public building. The Studio, 1899, described the present watercolour as 'very well imagined and very capably executed ... In this design he turned happily to account the inspirations derived from his travel abroad, and made evident enough the influence which the glowing colour and rich variety of form characteristic of Southern Europe had exercised over him.' (op.cit., p. 159). He was afterwards commissioned to execute the lunette in spirit fresco on the walls of the Royal Academy's refreshment room. Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (1872-1945) also executed a prize-winning lunette design Spring in December 1897 and Sir William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens (1862-1943) executed Summer.