Noonday Silence

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SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (BRITISH, 1880-1969)
Noonday Silence
signed 'W.RUSSELL FLINT-' (lower right); inscribed 'Noonday Silence' (on the reverse)
watercolor over pencil on paper laid down on board
13 5⁄8 x 20 in. (34.6 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance

with The Fine Art Society, London, February 1967.
with Frost and Reed, London, by 1971.
Stuart C. Irby Jr., acquired directly from the above, September 1971.
Gifted by the above to the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Frost and Reed and Christopher Wade, The Works of Sir William Russell Flint R.A., P.P.R.W.S., 1971, pp. 26-27, no. 23, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The present watercolor portrays a frequent motif used by Flint – a coastal landscape with figures. Flint painted both figures and landscapes throughout his career, skillfully marrying the two subjects, a fact noted at the time by The Connoisseur, March 1946: 'He is in the great tradition, both as a landscape and as a figure artist, and very few watercolor painters have been able to handle so many diverse and difficult subjects with such unerring skill.'

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