Scottish Art

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Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley, R.S.A.

Drying Salmon Nets

Lot Closed

November 24, 01:55 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley, R.S.A.

1921 - 1963

Drying Salmon Nets


signed EARDLEY (lower right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 45 by 80cm.; 17¾ by 31½in.

framed: 57.5 by 93.5cm.; 22¾ by 36¾in.

Executed in 1951.


We are grateful to Anne Morrison-Hudson and Patrick Elliott for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

The Piccadilly Gallery, London, where acquired circa 1968 and thence by family descent to the present owners
Anon., 'Our Art Critic’, The Scotsman, October 1951
Patrick Elliott, Joan Eardley: Land & Sea – A Life in Catterline, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2021, p. 57, illustrated pp. 58-9, fig. 40
Edinburgh, Society of Scottish Artists’, October 1951, no. 99
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Eight Young Contemporary British Painters, 1952, no. 20, with touring exhibition