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Edmund Blair Leighton
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Edmund Blair Leighton
- A Picnic Party
- signed E.B.L. and dated 1920 (lower left)
- oil on canvas
- 21 1/3 by 32 1/3 in.
- 55 by 83 cm
Provenance
Louis Wolff & Co. (acquired directly from the artist)
The Toner family, England
Gifted by the above to Monsignor Tom Toner, until 2012
The Toner family, England
Gifted by the above to Monsignor Tom Toner, until 2012
Condition
The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.:
This work seems to have been quite recently cleaned. The canvas is unlined and the stretcher is original. There are no damages. There are no retouches visible under ultraviolet light, and it seems highly unlikely that there are any. The work is in beautiful state and should be hung as is.
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Catalogue Note
The setting for this painting is near Kirby Cane, Norfolk, along the river Waveny where Blair Leighton kept a summer home. The artist had situated earlier compositions in this same setting, and similar costumes are included in Ribbons and Laces for Very Pretty Faces (1902, Private Collection), Garden of Poppies (1898, Private Collection) and Elopement (1893, Private Collection).