Claude BENDALL
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| Artist: | Claude BENDALL |
| Nationality: | British, 1891-1970 |
| Title: | The Road to Les Saintes-Maries
(with Portrait of a Girl verso) |
| Medium: | Gouache, watercolour and
pencil on board |
| Date: | 1943-65 |
| Inscription: | Signed ‘Claude
Bendall’ middle
left and artist’s
handwritten label verso, ‘Claude Bendall
- Nepicar Oast - Wrotham Kent - The Road to Les Saintes-
Maries’ |
| Image Size: | 36.6 x 49.6 cm (46¼ x 19½ in) |
| Framed Size: | 57.5 x 68.5 cm (22¾
x 27 in) |
| Provenance: | Private collection, Buckinghamshire |
| Additional Information: | Nepicar was the name of
the artist’s home,
a converted oasthouse at Wrotham in Kent; and Saintes-Maries-de-
la-Mer, a village in the Camargue, south of France, and a pilgrimage
destination for the Roma (Gypsies) who gather there each year for
a religious festival in honour of Saint Sarah |
There is a second painting, Head of a Girl,
painted on the reverse of Les Saintes-Maries, to view within a double-glass
frame |
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| Price: | £2,350 |
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