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Arthur Melville, A.R.S.A., R.S.W., A.R.S.

Sails Against the Morning Sky, Venice

Lot Closed

November 17, 12:25 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Arthur Melville, A.R.S.A., R.S.W., A.R.S.

1858-1904

Sails Against the Morning Sky, Venice


watercolour and pencil on board

unframed: 84 by 59cm.; 33 by 23in.

framed: 99 by 73.5cm.; 39 by 29in.

Dr George Melville
Sale, Christie's, Edinburgh, 8 June 1995, lot 867
The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
Sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 23 March 2016, lot 33, where acquired and thence by family descent to the present owners

Nottingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of works by the Late Arthur Melville, R.W.S., A.R.S.A., January 1907, no. 38
Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Exhibition of the Works of Arthur Melville, R.W.S., A.R.S.A., 1907, no. 112, as 'Sails against the Morning Sky, Venice, 1894'
Edinburgh, Bourne Fine Art and London, The Fine Art Society, Arthur Melville, August - October 1996, no. 65