Property from the Estate of an American Private Collector
Two Girls on the Pierhead, Walberswick
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
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Property from the Estate of an American Private Collector
Philip Wilson Steer, O.M., N.E.A.C.
Birkenhead 1860–1942 London
Two Girls on the Pierhead, Walberswick
oil on canvas
unframed: 91.5 x 91.5 cm.; 36 x 36 in.
framed: 124 x 124 cm.; 48⅞ x 48⅞ in.
With David Croal Thompson, London, by 1926;
From whom acquired by Frederick Archibald Hugo Pitman (1892–1963), by 1929;
Thence by descent.
‘Some Art Exhibitions', in Pall Mall Gazette, 7 April 1887, p. 2;
'The New English Art Club', in The Illustrated London News, 4 April 1887, p. 406;
'Exhibition of Pictures at the New English Art Club', in Building News, 8 April 1887, p. 504;
The Bohemian, 23 April 1887;
Exhibition of notable pictures, exh. cat., London 1926, n.p., no. 33;
R. Ironside, Wilson Steer, London 1943, reproduced plate 8;
D.S. MacColl, Life, Work and Setting of Philip Wilson Steer, London 1945, pp. 26, 190;
B. Laughton, Philip Wilson Steer 1860–1942, Oxford 1971 pp. 13, 129, no. 35, reproduced in colour, pl. 24 and on the dust-jacket.
London, Goupil Gallery, New English Arts Club, 1887, no. 96, as On the Pier Head;
Brussels, Musée Modern Museum, Les XX, 1889, no. 4, as La Jetee de Walberswick;
London, Goupil Gallery, Philip Wilson Steer, February 1894, no. 43, as The Pier;
London, Barbizon House, Exhibition of notable pictures, November – December 1926, no. 33;
London, Tate Gallery, Works by Philip Wilson Steer, 19 April – 21 July 1929, no. 54, as The Pier Head – Walberswick, lent by Frederick Archibald Hugo Pitman;
London, Royal Society of Artists, 1930;
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Twee Eeuwen Engelsche Kunst (Loan Exhibition of British Art), 4 July – 4 October 1936;
New York, Exhibition of Contemporary British Art from the British Pavilion, New York World's Fair, 1 November – 29 November 1939, no. 72, lent by Frederick Archibald Hugo Pitman;
London, Tate Gallery, P.W. Steer 1860–1942, 11 November – 11 December 1960, no. 9, lent by Frederick Archibald Hugo Pitman.
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