Mark Senior (1864-1927)
Mark Senior (1864-1927)

A Flemish fishmarket

Details
Mark Senior (1864-1927)
A Flemish fishmarket
signed 'M. Senior' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 x 40 in. (91.5 x 101.6 cm.)
Provenance
Mrs M.V. Hudson, the artist's daughter.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 May 1989, lot 9.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 November 1994, lot 133.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1907, no. 886.
Wakefield, Elizabethan Exhibition Gallery, Mark Senior (1862-1927), 1983, no. 57.

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Lot Essay

In the early decades of the twentieth century Mark Senior made several trips to Belgium and the Netherlands where he encountered a number of fellow artists, including Frank Brangwyn, who became a lifelong friend and mentor. Brangwyn's influence is clearly evidenced in the brown background shot with brilliant streaks of red and blue colouring of A Flemish fishmarket. Brangwyn continued to support Senior's work, and purchased two of his paintings for the collection of Konjo Matsukata in Japan. Unfortunately the collection was destroyed by a fire at a London warehouse in 1939.

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