SOLD
Country of origin: England
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Signed: Signed lower left and titled verso and dated
Dated: 1959
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 14.00" x 22.00" (35.6cm x 55.9cm)
Framed Size: 26.00" x 34.00" (66.0cm x 86.4cm)
Provenance:
William Russell Button Gallery, Chicago (1960) - original bill of sale verso.
William Russell Button was a close friend of Flint and was his authorised dealer in the United States during the artists lifetime.
1904
Watercolour on board
£2,750.00
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The Flower Seller
by Victor Gabriel Gilbert
c. 1870
Watercolour on paper
£4,850.00
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Figures on a beach at low tide
by Eugene Boudin
c. 1890
Watercolour on paper
£2,450.00
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Views of Paris – Set of Three
by Luigi Loir
c. 1890
Watercolour on paper
£2,650.00
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Etude de travailleurs
by Henri Edmond Cross
1873
Watercolour on paper
£2,950.00
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Marseille – 18th Septembre 1873
by Johan Barthold Jongkind
c. 1865
Watercolour on paper
£24,950.00
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Sur la plage de Deauville
by Eugene Boudin
c. 1944
Watercolour and gouache on paper
£13,950.00
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Le Moulin de L’Abbaye – Preuilly sur Claisse
by Jean Dufy
c. 1925-1930
Watercolour & stencil on board
£7,950.00
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Femme avec un chien marchant sur la plage
by Kees Van Dongen
William Flint was the son of F. Wighton Flint. He studied with a lithographer in Edinburgh. From 1900, he worked as an illustrator in London before beginning to paint almost exclusively in watercolours. In 1917, he became a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, of which he was president from 1936 to 1956. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1933.
He is known in particular for the studies he brought back from trips to France and Italy, including: Blue Riviera, the Garonne; Scottish landscapes such as Storm, Loch Earn; female figures and nudes; genre scenes including Sun, Sand and Conversation; and Romantically inspired compositions such as The Huntresses and the Knight and mythological scenes such as Andromeda, The Judgement of Paris. He began to show his work at group exhibitions in 1905 and 1906 (Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris). In 1906 and 1907, he showed at the Royal Academy in London; in 1909 and 1914 in Venice and in 1914 in Berlin. In 1912, he began working for the Riccardi Press in London providing watercolour designs for colour illustrations of M. Arnold's Poems, Kingsley's Heroes, Malory's Mort d'Arthur and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Birmingham (Mus. and AG): Shipyard Gleaners (1924-1925, oil on canvas); Silver and Gold (1929-1930, oil on canvas)
Dundee (University Fine Art Collection): Winter Sport (1927, print)
Edinburgh (Scottish Gal. of Modern Art): Two Models in a Studio (1920, watercolour on linen)
Greenock (McLean Mus. and AG): several watercolours
Harrogate (Mercer AG): Landscape Melting Snow, Gaerloch (watercolour on paper)
London (Courtauld Institute of Art): Autumn at Tourettes (1963, pen and ink, watercolour, bodycolour on paper)