Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 5 March 2018

Art: Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 45 472
Lot 405
  • Robert Gwelo Goodman; Borrowdale Valley


Lot Estimate
ZAR 35 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 45 472

About this Item

South African 1871-1939
Borrowdale Valley

signed

pastel on artist's board
59 by 72cm excluding frame

Notes

"Gwelo painted in Spain, Italy, Ireland Scotland and the Lake District. By 1911 his pictures were in no less than twenty exhibitions. That September the Studio carried an article on him in which he was referred to as "an artist of marked ability, who has, in recent years, made for himself a place of particular prominence among our more notable painters of landscape and open-air subjects. There are certain qualities in his work which make it of more than ordinary importance'; certain characteristics of feeling and expression giving it a special claim to attention". His "Borrowdale Valley" and "Grange of Derwentwater" were liners in that year's Academy and drew the comment from the Observer that "Mr. Goodman bids fair to become one of the most personal and distinguished landscape painters".

Ibid, page 30.

Literature

Joyce Newton Thompson. (circa 1951) Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Pages 30 and 32.

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