Lot 17

20th Century Continental School ‘Gondolas, Venice’

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 18 x 22 ins (46 x 56 cm)
Framed Size: 21.5 x 26 ins (55 x 66 cm)
Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer price: £250
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

This reads as a Dutch signature but not an artist I can find. In feel it is more of a French style, lots of texture and colour, not what I equate with the rather austere aesthetic of traditional Dutch painting.

I bought this because I liked the obvious joie de vivre with which it is painted. The excitement, noise and colour of a regatta in the Grand Canal is there in every slide of the palette knife. 

This is one of the finest frames in the auction - I originally bought the painting unframed and really went to town on the presentation.


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