Harold Harvey 1874-1941

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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Description

Harold Harvey
Apple Blossom
signed and dated l.l.: H. HARVEY 92
oil on canvas
63 by 53 cm.; 24 ¾ by 21in.

Provenance

Given as a gift to Jill and Geoffrey Garnier by the artist and thence by descent

Exhibited

Penzance, Penlee House Gallery and Newport Art Gallery and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Harold Harvey, Painter of Cornwall, 2001-2002, no.52

Literature

Kenneth McConkey, Peter Risdon and Pauline Sheppard, Harold Harvey, Painter of Cornwall, 2001, p. 135

Catalogue Note

This charming painting is the artist's earliest known work and was painted when he was only eighteen. It depicts a scene that the artist painted on several later occasions, that of a Cornish apple orchard.