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39
THE GREEN WAVE
1898
WILLIAM
SHACKLETON, N.E.A.C.
1872 - 1933
Pastel,
29.2 x 40.6 (11.5 x 16)
Signed
and dated, Wm. Shackleton / 98, (lower left, in red)
Provenance:
possibly acquired from the artist by Cecil French.
Exhibited:
New English Art Club Winter Exhibition, November-December
1899 (87). This was the first year that Shackleton exhibited,
as a non-member, with the N.E.A.C.
Two
naked girls leaning against a fence against an impressionistic
background with blossom and sea.
In
his introduction to the Goupil exhibition catalogue, of 1910,
Shackleton wrote "My pictures, I think, might almost
be classified under different headings, as Symbolical, Historical
Visions, Realism, Romantic Idylls and Poetic Realism."
All three of these stylistically similar paintings of the
1890s, which have colours in their titles, seem to be Symbolical
Romantic Idylls. His portrayal of shimmering light is derived
from his hero J.M.W.Turner.
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