Sir Noel Coward (1900-1973)

细节

Sir Noel Coward (1900-1973)

Samolo Bay

signed lower left Noel Coward, oil on canvas
21½ x 27½in. (54.5 x 70cm.)

来源

Purchased by the present owner from Gladys Calthrop's stall at the Actor's Orphanage Garden Party at Roehampton on 29 June 1948

出版

S. Morley, Out in the Midday Sun The Paintings of Noel Coward, Oxford, 1988, p.p.60-1 (illustrated in colour)

拍品专文

'Samolo is the largest of an archipelago of thirty-four islands, seven of which are uninhabited and few privately owned. The whole group was discovered by Captain Evangelus Cobb in the year 1786. They are of Volcanic origin and situated in the South-Western Pacific. Latitude 18 degrees north and longitude, if you are stil interested, 175 degrees west' (N. Coward, Pomp and Circumstance, 1960).

Samolo was in fact a fictional tropical island that Noel used as the setting for his comedy 'South Sea Bubble', the operatta 'Pacific 1860', a short story 'Solali', and his novel 'Pomp and Circumstance' (S. Morley, loc.cit.)