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Lot 35
  • 35

Thomas Fearnley

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Thomas Fearnley
  • Gravensfjord
  • signed with initial and dated gravensfjord 12 July / 1839. F. lower right
  • oil on paper laid on canvas
  • 43 by 57.5cm., 17 by 22¾in.

Literature

Sigurd Willoch, Maleren Thomas Fearnley, Oslo, 1932, p. 203, illustrated

Condition

As visible in the catalogue illustration, there are some spots of discolouration to the paper, notably in the sky. Under UV light there is a little retouching, notably a spot in the upper left of the sky, and some tiny pinhole-sized spots in the hill in the distance. Overall the colours are very fresh, as per the illustration. Held in a wood and plaster moulded gold-painted frame.
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Catalogue Note

Gravensfjord is the former name for Granvinfjord, a side fjord Hardangerfjord in Hordaland, located on Norway's south western coast near Bergen.