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TWILIGHT
c.1940
SIR
GEORGE CLAUSEN, R.A., R.W.S.
1852-1944
Watercolour,
22.8 x 29.2 (9 x 11.5)
Signed,
in pencil, G.CLAUSEN (lower right)
Provenance:
Fine Art Society, Old Bond Street, purchased in 1940 by Cecil
French for £15.
Exhibited:
Fine Art Society,
April-May 1940, Britain in
Contemporary Art in Oil and Watercolour, (75).
An
impressionistic low landscape of open fields with the horizon
broken by a single tree to left and a central clump below
an evening sky with pink-tinged clouds.
It
should be noted that this freely painted small sketch was
painted when Clausen was well into his eighties. After the
first World War (1914-18) he became increasingly interested
in the atmospheric light effects of evening and early morning,
an interest reflected in this late work. In his final years
his paintings were almost entirely restricted to watercolour.
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