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Lot 73
Paul Fordyce Maitland(British, 1863-1909)Kensington Gardens, Afternoon Haze
29 March 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £18,000
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Paul Fordyce Maitland (British, 1863-1909)
Kensington Gardens, Afternoon Haze
signed 'P Maitland' (lower left); further signed, titled and indistinctly inscribed 'No.46 18- eac--/"Kensington Gardens/Afternoon Haze" (on artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
63.5 x 76.8cm (25 x 30 1/4in).
signed 'P Maitland' (lower left); further signed, titled and indistinctly inscribed 'No.46 18- eac--/"Kensington Gardens/Afternoon Haze" (on artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
63.5 x 76.8cm (25 x 30 1/4in).
Footnotes
Provenance
With The Leicester Galleries, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1986, lot 39.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above sale).
Literature
Kenneth McConkey, British Impressionism, Oxford, 1989, no. 86, p. 92, illustrated.
The present lot is an unusually large composition for the artist, who dedicated his career to painting the parks and streets around Kensington and Chelsea. An acolyte of Whistler, and a student of Theodore Roussel, Maitland was accepted into the New English Art Club in 1888, and exhibited at the influential London Impressionists exhibition at the Goupil Gallery the following year. Kenneth McConkey describes the artist's work as 'the calm accumulation of marks and meditations', noting that Maitland's 'scenes in Kensington Gardens with their tall trees and frail distant figures provide the basis of a vision of the capital which slowly emerged in the twenty years after the London Impressionist's exhibition'1
1Kenneth McConkey, British Impressionism, Oxford, 1989, pp. 88-89.
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