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Lot #134

Artist William Percival Weston
Title Evening - Beachy Head - England
Media oil on wood board
Dated ca. 1909
Size 7.5 x 11.25 in. / 19 x 28.6 cm.
Frame Size 11.5 x 15.25 x 1.75 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed lower left; bears title, date[s] and inscription on labels verso; framed; handling marks on frame noted

Reference
Third Annual British Columbia Society of Fine Arts No. 63 - May 1910 inscribed on label verso)

Provenance
private collection, British Columbia

Hammer $1,000 Estimate $1,500/$2,500

Biographical Information
William Percival Weston ~ [1879-1967] Canadian RCA, BCSA, CGP, RBA
see W.P.Weston, by I.Thom, A.G.G.V., 1980; Silence and Solitude - the Art of W.P.Weston, by L.Richardson, Richmond Art Gallery, 1993; as well as N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg. 330 for other examples; From Desolation to Splendour, by M.Tippett and D.Cole, pg.116, Clarke Irwin, 1977; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.100, Westbridge Pub., 2003; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.424 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.397

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