Lot 150
- 150
Alfred Aaron Wolmark
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
- Alfred Aaron Wolmark
- Nudes in a Red Light (Adam and Eve)
- signed with monogram
- oil on canvas
- 92 by 56cm.; 36¼ by 22in.
- Executed circa 1913.
Provenance
Eric Wolmark
Belgrave Gallery, London
Connaught Brown, London, where acquired by a Private Collector, 25th April 1986, and thence by descent to the present owner
Belgrave Gallery, London
Connaught Brown, London, where acquired by a Private Collector, 25th April 1986, and thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Alfred Wolmark Exhibition, 22nd March - 13th April 1975, cat. no.49;
London, Belgrave Gallery, Alfred Wolmark Centenary Exhibition, November 1977, cat. no.32;
London, Connaught Brown, A Modern British View, 12th November - 21st December 1985, cat. no.12, illustrated.
London, Belgrave Gallery, Alfred Wolmark Centenary Exhibition, November 1977, cat. no.32;
London, Connaught Brown, A Modern British View, 12th November - 21st December 1985, cat. no.12, illustrated.
Condition
The canvas has been lined. On the extreme left hand edge, where the canvas is pulled over the stretcher bar, there are lines of cracking, but otherwise the canvas appears sound.
There are some lines of craquelure in some of the more impasto areas of paint, most apparent to the figure of Eve and to the tree in the upper centre of the composition, which is lifting slightly. There is also some craquelure and flecks of loss towards the right of the upper horizontal edge and at the left vertical edge. There is a fleck of loss apparent in the orange pigment underneath Adam's arm, with one or two further extremely small scattered flecks of loss. There are some fine, scattered lines of reticulation in places. There is some very slight rubbing to some of the raised tips of the impasto. There is a small scuff to the torso of Eve. Subject to the above, the work appears to be in good overall condition.
Ultraviolet light reveals some very small flecks of retouching to a few isolated spots on the figures.
The work is presented in a painted wooden frame.
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