Live Auction 17081Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Edward Lear (London 1812-1888 San Remo)
Lot 192 THE ROSS COLLECTION FROM KNOCKMORE, ENNISKERRY, WICKLOW (lots 157-193)

Edward Lear (London 1812-1888 San Remo)

Near Sarténé, Corsica

Closed2 July 2019

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GBP 18,750

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Edward Lear (London 1812-1888 San Remo)
Near Sarténé, Corsica
signed with monogram (lower left) and inscribed and dated 'near Sateréné [sic] 5 1/2 PM. April 18./ 1868.' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out
6 7/8 x 16 ½ in. (17.5 x 41.9 cm.)

with the Fine Art Society, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 January 1982, lot 221, where purchased for the present collection.

Specialist note

Lear made one visit to Corsica in 1868 and reached Sarténé, in the south of the island on 17 April. On 18 April he wrote in his diary, immortalised in his 1870 publication Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica, 'I shall... try to get as many records as I can of the landscape, which is of a class rarely met with in such perfection'.