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Lot 21
Sir George Clausen, R.A., R.W.S. (1852-1944)
Sunset
Closed12 December 2013
Price Realised
GBP 25,000
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Specialist note
When Clausen's retrospective exhibition was staged at Barbizon House, London, the seventy-six year old painter was hailed as the great poet 'who knows how to stir one's imagination' with pictures of rural England that,
'make the town-dweller dream of dewy meadows shady lanes of the solemn grandeur of sunset, the blitheness of spring and the melancholy of a misty autumn morning.' (P.G. Konody in McConkey, George Clausen, 2012, p. 191).
These moods of nature were recorded on Duton Hill in Essex where the painter had his country retreat. From here the terrain gently undulates westwards towards the neighboring villages of Broxted and Clavering - a landscape now traversed by the M11. When Sunset was painted around 1928, there was no such incursion and the peaceful lanes were mostly left to locals and the occasional cyclist, out for the day. Clausen would often miss both - being at work on the motif at dawn or dusk to watch the sun rise and fall. In the present instance, evening casts the landscape of blues and ochres into simple tonal transitions that are heightened by the blazing orb of the sun, hovering above the horizon.
KMc.
'make the town-dweller dream of dewy meadows shady lanes of the solemn grandeur of sunset, the blitheness of spring and the melancholy of a misty autumn morning.' (P.G. Konody in McConkey, George Clausen, 2012, p. 191).
These moods of nature were recorded on Duton Hill in Essex where the painter had his country retreat. From here the terrain gently undulates westwards towards the neighboring villages of Broxted and Clavering - a landscape now traversed by the M11. When Sunset was painted around 1928, there was no such incursion and the peaceful lanes were mostly left to locals and the occasional cyclist, out for the day. Clausen would often miss both - being at work on the motif at dawn or dusk to watch the sun rise and fall. In the present instance, evening casts the landscape of blues and ochres into simple tonal transitions that are heightened by the blazing orb of the sun, hovering above the horizon.
KMc.