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Edmund George Warren
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- Edmund George Warren
- Woodland
- signed and dated l.l.: Edmund G Warren 1867
- watercolour heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic
- 25.5 by 36cm., 10 by 14¼in.
Provenance
Chris Beetles Gallery, London
Exhibited
New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, Victorian Landscape Watercolours, 9 September - 1 November 1992
Condition
The sheet appears to be sound. There is a faint craquelure pattern across the surface in the areas of gum arabic; otherwise the colours remain bright.
Well presented in a gilt wood frame with a cream mount under glass; unexamined out of frame.
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"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
A member of the New Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painters in Oils, Warren’s meticulously detailed paintings, predominantly of heavily wooded landscapes were almost photographic in their intricacy. He was one of the first landscapists to embrace the Pre-Raphaelite mantra of truth to nature and while criticised by Ruskin as “mechanical”, his richly keyed palette and naturalistic depiction of shady groves and dappled light owes more than a small debt to the movement. Highly priced in his lifetime, he developed a distinctive formula of his own, painstakingly building up layers of colour and exploiting to great effect the additional depth and tone created by adding bodycolour and gum Arabic. The result was a jewel-like glow which, unlike the work of many of his contemporaries in watercolour, looks as fresh now as the day it was painted.
The present work relates to Warren's large Rest in the Cool and Shady Wood (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).