Live Auction 5969Victorian & British Impressionist Art
Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (1880-1969)
Lot 60

Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (1880-1969)

On Forbidden Ground

Closed13 December 2012

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GBP 22,500

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Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (1880-1969)
On Forbidden Ground
signed 'W. RUSSELL FLINT' (lower right) and inscribed 'On Forbidden Ground' (on the reverse and again on the reverse of the original backboard)
pencil and watercolour, on paper
19 x 27 5/8 in. (48.9 x 70.2 cm.)

Specialist note

In commenting on his beach scenes, which were particularly popular during the 1930s, Flint said that they were 'technically the most difficult of all forms of water-colour painting and the purest...I might be asked why and the answer would be that these subjects are essentially the most delicate, direct and subtle of all' (R. Lewis and K. Gardner, Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S. 1880-1969, London, 1988, p. 60).