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Edward Seago (1910-1974)
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Edward Seago (1910-1974)

Queens Road West, Hong Kong

Details
Edward Seago (1910-1974)
Queens Road West, Hong Kong
signed 'Edward Seago' (lower left), and inscribed as title (on the reverse)
oil on board
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.7 cm.)
Provenance
with P. & D. Colnaghi Ltd., London.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Seago made his only visit to Hong Kong in 1962 at the invitation of John Kidston Swire, the artist's patron, and Chairman of the parent company of the Far Eastern Trading and Shipping Group, whose Hong Kong manager wanted six pictures for a new boardroom. The company paid Seago's expenses and he refunded them in paintings. While appalled at the poverty that he sometimes encountered, Seago found Hong Kong to be a rich source of inspiration, and the trip generated eighty paintings and watercolours.

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