16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1088
Adolphe Valette (1861-1942) French
A lively beach scene, possibly Wales
Signed, dated 1916 to label verso, oil on canvas, 38cm by 53.5cm
Provenance: The Perera collection
Purchased from Mr. Lamming in Jersey (who was the executor of Andre Valette's Estate.)
Sold for £8,000
Estimated at £8,000 - £12,000
The canvas tacking margins all present with some minor rips and damages to the turnovers. Canvas slightly lacking in tension, all keys loose in stretcher. There is a network of cracks throughout the central portion of the canvas possibly from movement/damage where it has not been protected by the stretcher bars; these cracks are lifting slightly pulling the canvas. In places they have lifted to create sharp lifting points not adhered to the canvas (most visible in raking light) although there have not been any losses of paint yet, for example below right of the two left most swimmers, below the feet of the little girl in pink (see images), and top left corner. There are futher stable drying cracks in places, such as the arm of the little girl in white and the mother's pink dress. Small cracked bumps to each corner, presumably from the stretcher. There is one minor unretouched loss below the top right swimmer in black, a tiny loss to the sand bottom left, and a further small loss to the foot of the gent in top hat - all stable and unretouched. An even surface layer with light surface dirt and minor dust/accretions. No apparent restoration, in fair condition.
Examined in frame
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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Mar, 2024
Coming up for auction this Spring are three notable works by Adolphe Valette (1876-1942), a French Impressionist artist who spent the majority of his career in the North of England. Whilst he is best remembered today as being the highly influential tutor to L.S. Lowry, Valette created a significant body of work in oils, watercolours and drawing media. All three works are sold with provenance from The Perera Collection, the largest collection of works by Valette to have been assembled in private hands.
Further notable works in the sale include an exquisitely detailed still life of a peach, black grapes and cobnuts on a marble shelf by Emilie Preyer (1849-1930), and a work by historical genre painter Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) that depicts the hero of a popular comic ballad, John Gilpin.
The sale will also see the final part of the Raymond Booth Studio, comprising 19 works. Raymond Booth (1929-2015) was perhaps the greatest botanical artist and illustrator of his generation, and his passion for the natural world shines through in his highly detailed oil studies of flora and fauna.
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