Children paddling on the beach

細節

Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955)
Children paddling on the beach
signed 'DOROTHEA SHARP' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 x 42 in. (91.4 x 106.7 cm.)
There is another work 'Feeding the pigeons' by the same hand on the reverse (illustrated).

來源

with David Messum, from whom purchased by the present owner at the 1989 exhibition.

展覽

possibly London, Royal Academy, 1925, no. 546, as 'The Green Wave'.
London, David Messum, British Impressionism, Autumn 1989, no. 78.

注意事項

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拍品專文

Dorothea Sharp received encouragement from George Clausen and David Murray whilst training at the Regent Street Polytechnic, but she later claimed it was seeing the works of Monet for the first time as a student in Paris that had the most radical effect on her outlook. In the present picture she appears to have assimilated the vocabulary of the Post-Impressionists in the pattern of vivid colours and their rippling interplay across the incoming tide. Although she lived in Berkshire, most of her delightful studies of children were made on the sands at Sennen, and on other Cornish beaches near Land's End.