Live Auction 9158Modern British and Irish Art
Theodore Major (1908-1999)
Lot 461

Theodore Major (1908-1999)

Industrial Landscape with Telegraph Poles

Closed11 July 2013

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GBP 27,500

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Theodore Major (1908-1999)
Industrial Landscape with Telegraph Poles
signed 'MAJOR' (on the reverse)
oil on board
29 x 37 in. (73.7 x 94 cm.)

The Artist's Estate.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 12 October 2011, lot 109, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

The industrial nature of Wigan with its many factories was the subject matter of many of Major's paintings. Mervyn Levy commented that a northern industrial town may be seen as 'ugly' by many yet Major managed to transform the scene 'into a pattern of startling and moving beauty' (Exhibition catalogue, Theodore Major Centenary, Oldham, 2008, unpaginated).