Joseph Southall - Bull Bay
Joseph Southall - Bull Bay
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JOSEPH SOUTHALL, RWS, NEAC, RBSA
(1861-1944)
Bull Bay, Anglesea, 1902
Inscribed, dated and signed with monogram beneath mount l.l.: Bull Bay / viii.1902 / JES
Watercolour over traces of pencil
10 by 12.5 cm., 4 by 5 in.
Provenance:
The artist’s cousin Isabel Harlock and thence by descent.
A page in a sketchbook with a thumbnail sketch of a related composition to the present work is accompanied by the following inscription in the artist’s hand: “This picture, painted in tempera, with a stormy sky, was sold in the Georges Petit Gallery in 1910 in my one-man show.” Southall’s retrospective at the George Petit Gallery in 1910 was probably the most significant of his career, cementing his importance as a figure in British Art beyond his own shores.
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Bull Bay, Anglesea, 1902Inscribed, dated and signed with monogram beneath mount l.l.: Bull Bay / viii.1902 / JESWatercolour over traces of pencil10 by 12.5 cm., 4 by 5 in. Provenance:The artist’s cousin Isabel Harlock and thence by descent.A page in a sketchbook with a thumbnail sketch of a related composition to the present work is accompanied by the following inscription in the artist’s hand: “This picture, painted in tempera, with a stormy sky, was sold in the Georges Petit Gallery in 1910 in my one-man show.” Southall’s retrospective at the George Petit Gallery in 1910 was probably the most significant of his career, cementing his importance as a figure in British Art beyond his own shores. ){kind=link}