Lake District, an Oval Lake Landscape, Signed Oil on Canvas by Iris Raquin, 1964, Gilt Frame
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Description
▾The water holds more colour than the land above it.
Oil on canvas, 15 x 11 inches (38 x 28 cm), 19 x 23 inches (48 x 58 cm) framed. Signed lower right and dated. Titled Lake District on the reverse in the painter's hand. French, 1964. Gilded frame with a grey linen mount.
An oval composition. A lake fills the lower half and takes the reflection of everything above it, broken into vertical strokes of rose, violet, pale blue and green that never resolve into a single shape. Above the far bank, wooded slopes in deep green and blue, then bare hills in pink and ochre, then a sky of white and turquoise laid on thick. The paint is worked with a knife throughout, ridged and stiff, catching light across the whole surface.
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A French painter in Cumbria
The title written on the back is the painter's own, and it names a place she travelled to. The Lake District is in the north west of England, four hundred miles from Paris, and it had been a destination for landscape painters since Turner went there. What a French painter of 1964 brought to it was a palette that owes nothing to English watercolour, all rose and turquoise laid on with a knife. The subject is English. The handling is not.
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The painting is in good original condition, the impasto unflattened across the whole surface. The frame is a later one, fitted in the south of France, with its maker's label still on the back.
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Details
▾Artist
Iris Raquin (1911-1997)Period
1964Origin
FranceStyle
LandscapeMedium
Oil on canvasSignature
Signed lower right, Raquin, and dated. Titled Lake District on the reverse.Frame
Gilded frame with a grey linen mount. Later, with the label of a frame maker at La Turbie on the reverse.Features
Original, one of a kind, signed, framedDimensions
▾Painting
15 x 11 inchesFramed
19 x 23 inchesCondition
Good original condition. The impasto is unflattened across the whole surface, with no sign of restoration.
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