Live Auction 532520th Century British & Irish Art Day Sale
Carel Weight, R.A. (1908-1997)
Lot 159 PROPERTY FROM A LONDON COLLECTION

Carel Weight, R.A. (1908-1997)

The Thames at Hammersmith

Closed24 May 2012

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GBP 43,250

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Carel Weight, R.A. (1908-1997)
The Thames at Hammersmith
signed and inscribed 'CAREL WEIGHT/RIVER AT HAMMERSMITH/£28 0 0/7 Ladbroke Sq W11' (on a label attached to the frame)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 November 1991, lot 96, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Carel Weight studied at Hammersmith School of Art from 1926 to 1929, and his best-known work portrayed daily life in the London boroughs of Hammersmith, Battersea and Clapham. Weight painted the present work from Julian Trevelyan's studio on Durham Wharf which looked down the river towards Hammersmith Bridge.