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pencil and watercolour on paper,
18.4 x 25.3 cm, framed 38.5 x 44 cm
signed 'G CLAUSEN' (lower right), dedicated 'To Mr & Mrs Lamb' (lower left).
Collection of Helen and Arthur Grogan.
with Abbott & Holder Ltd., London.
Private Collection, UK.
George Clausen was one of the leading British artists at the the turn of the century. A great exponent of the new naturalism of Jules Bastien-Lepage and a foremost painter of landscape and the working life.
As his career he continued he developed more of an Impressionistic approach and, as with the present work, light and air became his main subject. He moved away from depictions of people working the land and simply focussed on the land itself. He placed great importance on capturing the essence of a place, its genius loci, painting outdoors and filling hundreds of sketchbooks.
Clausen was a founding member of the New English Art Club in 1886. In 1895, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, and a full Academician in 1906. He was knighted in 1927.
