Live Auction 7788Victorian & British Impressionist Pictures Including Drawings and Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 25 SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE MARY SPENCER WATSON

George Spencer Watson, R.A., R.W.S., R.O.I. (1869-1934)

A picnic at Portofino, 1911

Closed16 December 2009

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GBP 18,750

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George Spencer Watson, R.A., R.W.S., R.O.I. (1869-1934)
A picnic at Portofino, 1911
inscribed 'A picnic at Portofino, 1911, by George Spencer Watson, R.A.'
oil on canvas
23¾ x 32 in. (60.4 x 81.2 cm.)

The artist, and by descent to his daughter, Mary Spencer Watson.

Specialist note

A wonderfully evocative scene, as might be described in the novels of Henry James or Edith Wharton, of a party picnicing beside the Mediterranean to escape the cold of an English winter.