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38
THE GOLDEN HOUR
1893
WILLIAM
SHACKLETON, N.E.A.C.
1872 - 1933
Oil
on board, 35 x 31.8 (13.75 x 12.5)
Signed
and dated, Wm. Shackleton (lower left), Wm. Shackleton / 93
(lower right).
Inscribed
verso, Sketch for The Golden Hour/ by William Shackleton.
Provenance:
possibly acquired from the artist by Cecil French.
A
group of naked figures, including boys playing with a model
yacht, on a beach, against a vivid sky and sea with a sailing
ship to the right.
Presumably
a study for Golden Hours (sic) which was exhibited
in the 1933 Bradford Memorial Exhibition (100).
The
painting is closely related to The Passing Hour, 1904,
(99.1 x 92.7), shown at the Goupil Gallery in 1910 (56) and
Barbizon House in March 1927 (11), described by Shackleton
in the catalogue as "A Meditation of Life. Humanity is
represented by a group of naked children at the edge of a
vast sea. Children are playing with gaiety or thoughtfulness
as their different natures direct, but all are heedless of
the beauty and the mystery and the solemnity of the brooding
spirit of the past hour." A related painting Children
on the Sea Shore, 1899, was exhibited at the R.A. in 1900
(324)
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