Henry Herbert La Thangue, R.A. (1859-1929)

Marsh Marigolds

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Henry Herbert La Thangue, R.A. (1859-1929)
Marsh Marigolds
signed 'H.H. LA THANGUE.' (lower right), signed again and inscribed '"Marsh Marigolds"/H.H. La Thangue' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
35 x 40½ in. (89 x 102.8 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. La Thangue, by whom bequeathed to the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, from whom purchased by the present owner's mother.

Exhibited

possibly, London, Royal Academy, Commemorative Exhibition of Works by Late Members, January-March 1933, no.187 as 'In the Orchard'.

Lot Essay

The artist's life-long friend and admirer, Sir George Clausen, remarked in the foreword to La Thangue's memorial exhibition at Brighton Art Gallery in 1930, that he had never tired in his search for sketching grounds and the sun. Always considered to be a very solitary figure by his friends, his depictions of rural life set in the Sussex countryside that he loved, concentrate on a lone girl or boy absorbed by a task and surrounded by docile farm animals. In the present work the young girl is depicted in a meadow bathed in sunlight and surrounded by gleaming marigolds.

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