Sale 12309
London, South Kensington
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7 July 2016
Price realised
GBP 2,750
Estimate
Charles Green, R.I. (1840-1898) The quack doctor signed and dated 'C Green/1866' (lower right) watercolour and bodycolour 10½ x 16½ in. (26.7 x 42 cm.)
Provenance
with Leger Galleries, London. with The Maas Gallery, London.
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Exhibited
London, Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 1866, no. 312. London, Leger Galleries, Winter Exhibition, 1954, no. 10.
It has been suggested that this work might be that which Green submitted in 1866 to The Illustrated London News. A letter attached to the reverse from Leger Galleries states The Illustrated London News' wish to reproduce the work again in 1954.
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