George Clausen

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Auction House:
Christie's / Nov 15, 2012
Estimate:€1,250.16 - €1,875.23
Price:€2,638.19

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Artworks in Arcadja

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George Clausen - Sea Deep Blue

Original 1887

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Auction: Christie's - Mar 13, 2013- London

Lot number: 28
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Sir George Clausen, R.A., R.W.S. (1852-1944) Sea deep blue signed and dated 'G. Clausen 1887' (lower right) oil on panel 4½ x 9 3/8 in. (11.4 x 23.9 cm.) On 3 December 1887 Clausen listed five 'pochades' at £10 and £5 in his account book. The two smallest were seascapes, described as Sea (light blue) and Sea Deep Blue. It is likely that the present picture is the second of these. That autumn the Clausens went on holiday to Saltfleetby on the north Lincolnshire coast, and immediately following this, the painter travelled to Dannes and Etaples in northern France to visit the artists' colony there. His two oil-on-panel sketches of the sea are likely to have been painted at either of these locations. The depth of blue in the present picture suggests that it may have been observed on the French coast, looking west, rather than on the English coast, where other Saltfleetby panels indicate grey days. Although Sea (light blue) has not been traced, these two small seascapes are unique in the Clausen oeuvre and no other oil paintings of the sea have been traced. They may contain an echo of the tiny Whistler 'pochades' which Clausen could have seen at Dowdeswell's gallery in 1884 in a show entitled Notes - Harmonies - Nocturnes. This too contained a number of seascapes often referred to as 'colour notes'. We are grateful to Kenneth McConkey for preparing this catalogue entry.

George Clausen - Portrait Of Arthur George Clausen

Original 1893

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Auction: Bonhams - Jan 23, 2013- London

Lot number: 98
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Sir George Clausen, RA, RWS (British, 1852-1944) Portrait of Arthur George Clausen, the artist's son signed and indistinctly dated 'G. CLAUSEN/1893' (upper right), inscribed 'ARTY' (upper left), also inscribed '1893/Portrait of my son Arthur George/George Clausen/Middington/Newport/Essex' on reverse oil on panel 24 x 16cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/16in). PROVENANCE: Arthur George Clausen Thence by descent While some contemporaries saw eye-catching subject pictures as a means of securing lucrative portrait commissions, George Clausen never considered the naturalistic portrayal of field workers in this way. Early in his career, portraits were few in number and were restricted to family members and close friends. Within this group there was a series of small portraits of his children that began in 1889 with that of his eldest daughter, Margaret Mary. These continued with the larger family group The Breakfast Table , 1890-1 (Private Collection) - which originally contained Arthur George (1883-1974) the first of Clausen's three sons, standing to the right of the table with his two sisters and their mother, Agnes Mary Clausen 1 . After it was shown at the Royal Academy the painter came to the view that the composition would be strengthened if the right-hand section was removed and only the head and shoulders of the boy was salvaged and re-stretched as an independent picture (sold Bonhams, 6 March 2012). In the following years Clausen painted other small portraits of Arthur George, his sister Kit, and brother, Raymond John. All are distinguished by the sensitivity that typifies his paintings of country children Annie Carter, Rose Grimsdale and 'ploughboy' Joe. However in these family portraits the patient observation of his own offspring combines sympathy with a visual rigour that recalls the miniatures of Holbein. Clausen avoids the flashy pyrotechnics of contemporaries like Sargent and Shannon who were often required to convey innocence with high social standing in their child portraits. In later years, as they grew up, the painter would occasionally turn to his children as models, but seldom with the incisiveness seen in the present work. 1 Kenneth McConkey, Sir George Clausen RA 1852-1944 , 1980 (exhibition catalogue, Bradford and Tyne and Wear Museums), pp. 58-9; Kenneth McConkey, George Clausen and the Picture of English Rural Life , 2012, (Atelier Books), pp. 97-8. We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

George Clausen - Study Of A Young Girl Leaning Against A Tree

Original 1891

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Auction: Christie's - Dec 13, 2012- London

Lot number: 42
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Sir George Clausen, R.A., R.W.S. (1852-1944) Study of a young girl leaning against a tree signed with initials and dated 'G.C. 1891' (lower right) coloured chalks on buff paper 9½ x 7 in. (24.1 x 17.8 cm.) The present pastel is one of the final studies of Rose Grimsdale which Clausen made shortly before his house move from Berkshire to Essex. It fits comfortably into the sequence of works that include the watercolour, Idleness, 1891 and the oil, Noon in the Hayfield, 1897 (both private collections). However its closest companion in the series is the small oil sketch given to Goscombe John (c. 1891, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff). Clausen's interest in pastel began in the early 1880s and gathered momentum at the end of the decade when he was asked by Sir Coutts Lindsay to join the vetting committee for the so-called 'Pastel Society', formed to stage annual exhibitions at the Grosvenor Gallery. In artistic terms the medium was of vital importance to the painter in that it encouraged him to become more adventurous technically - to draw in colour on buff paper, as in the present case. It thus precipitated his move to a more impressionistic style. We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.

George Clausen - Red Sky At Night

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Auction: Christie's - Nov 15, 2012- London

Lot number: 50
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Lot Description Sir George Clausen, R.A., R.W.S. (1852-1944) Red sky at night signed with initials (lower right) pastel 8 3/8 x 10¾ in. (21.3 x 27.3 cm.) Special Notice Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. Lot Condition Report I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to its terms. View Condition Report

George Clausen - Solitude

Original 1895

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Auction: Christie's - Jul 12, 2012- London

Lot number: 278
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Sir George Clausen, R.A., R.W.S., R.I. (1852-1944) Solitude signed and dated 'G Clausen 1895' (lower left) and inscribed and signed 'SOLITUDE./G CLAUSEN' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 14½ x 26½ in. ( 36.8 x 67.3 cm.) Goupil Gallery; Christie's, London, 1 July 1905, lot 123 (£3.3.0 to Sampson) Anonymous sale; Sotheby's London, 11 November 1981, lot 137. On a visit to Clausen's studio at Widdington, Essex on 20 October 1895, David Croal Thomson, manager at the Goupil dealership, surveyed his recent work and agreed prices. Among the pictures Thomson saw was Solitude (August Moonrise), a Millet-esque nocturne depicting a fallow field. The work was a pendant to a larger canvas, The Plough, (sold Christie's c. 1985) which Clausen had painted in the previous year. Where the earlier picture shows an abandoned plough, here the foreground contains a harrow. Three weeks after Thomson's visit, on 9 November 1895, Solitude was dispatched to Goupil's, but no record is made in the artist's account book of its eventual sale. The picture prompted its own sequence. Clausen began to draw scenes of harrowing and two years later embarked upon a large canvas for the Royal Academy in 1898. A monumental work that was later destroyed in a fire, The Harrow depicted a boy struggling to control an unruly plough-horse as he tries to turn the animal at the edge of a field. There is no such drama in Solitude, merely that stillness which falls with a late summer moonrise. KMc.