Live Auction 10712Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
Edward Lear (London 1812-1888 San Remo)
Lot 105 PROPERTY FROM THE EDGAR ASTAIRE COLLECTION (LOTS 104-106)

Edward Lear (London 1812-1888 San Remo)

Cannes, France

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Edward Lear (London 1812-1888 San Remo)
Cannes, France
signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with white
6 x 10 in. (16.5 x 26.6 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 June 1983, lot 116.
with Noortman & Brod, New York.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 November 1999, lot 104, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Having spent the winter of 1864-5 in Nice, Lear returned to the South of France in the winter of 1867, settling this time in Cannes, where he had to take 'very expensive rooms... - sun-aspect for health - light to work, and positions etc. for swells to come to' (Letter to Fortescue, 26 December 1867, ed. Lady Strachey, Later Letters of Edward Lear, 1911, p. 89).

Lear built up quite a following in the town and as well as his characteristic watercolour sketches, he painted finished studio watercolours of which the present watercolour is an excellent example.

For another view of Cannes, see lot 108.