signed with monogram
1868
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper laid down on canvas
17 x 25"
Exhibited at the Dudley Gallery in 1896 when the artist was 28. It was exhibited at the RA in 1906 (a year after his death).
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=27096&int_modo=1
I thought I knew all of Simeon's paintings! Clearly not. This painting is richer than his normal dreamy stuff and more "commercial", I would have thought. And yet he died so young, just when his career should have been taking off :(
ReplyDeleteI have created a link to my post on Rebecca Solomon, http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2008/12/rebecca-solomon-artist.html Thank you very much,
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Thanks, I didn't know it either until I saw it in an auction catalogue (Christie's). Hope you don't mind but I have linked to your post for tonight as it was so well done. Their is something really interesting about that family.
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