Lot 197
  • 197

Jonathan Wateridge

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jonathan Wateridge
  • Swimming Hole
  • oil on linen
  • 279.5 by 396 cm. 110 by 156 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 2011.

Provenance

All Visual Arts, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

London, All Visual Arts, Jonathan Wateridge: Mittelland, October - November 2011, illustrated in colour, n.p.

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is cooler and lighter in the original. Condition: The work is in very good and original condition. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

"Photo-realism for me is about the transposition of information that relates to the particular way a camera sees. I try to paint as the eye might see, which is more contingent, fleeting, variegated and more edited in terms of the information that remains.”
Jonathan Wateridge
Cited in: David Gleeson, 'Jonathan Wateridge. Painting on a Great Scale: Reality, Fiction and Illusion', Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 35, June - July 2010, pp. 30-33.