拍品 104
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Arthur Melville, R.W.S (1858-1904)
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Arthur Melville, R.W.S (1858-1904)

The faggot gatherers

细节
Arthur Melville, R.W.S (1858-1904)
The faggot gatherers
signed and dated 'Arthur Melville/1880' (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed 'Winter Fuel' (lower left)
watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out
11¾ x 18 in. (29.7 x 45.7 cm.)
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拍品专文

Having trained at the Academie Julien in Paris and as a member of a colony of international artists in Barbizon during 1878, Arthur Melville painted this atmospheric watercolour in the year of his departure for the Middle East, a journey which would last from 1880 until 1882. The dark palette of this work foreshadows the change in his style which occurred around 1885, after a visit to the Orkney islands with James Guthrie, and which was perhaps influenced by his study of the works of James McNeill Whistler.