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HAROLD HOPE READ (1882-1959)
Bathers (c. 1928 United Kingdom)
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| Item Stock Code |
869 |
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| Item Medium Description |
Watercolour and pen and ink |
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| Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details |
Signed and indistinctly dated |
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| European Dimensions |
31.50 cm wide 22.50 cm high |
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| UK/USA Converted Dimensions |
12.40 inches wide 8.86 inches high |
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| Item Description / Dealer Expertise |
Read had moved Brighton and by 1933 to Tunbridge Wells. His subject matter often featured the shoppers and shop fronts of Kensington and Tunbridge Wells and made amusing observations of people going about their normal life, often revealing a quirky element. He often included the figure of his mistress/housekeeper and her small dog which may be the dog seen sunning itself on the beach in the present work.
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Figurative artist and illustrator, born in Greenwich, southeast London. His Quaker family is known to have been well educated, one of Harold's older brothers becoming a doctor and another a solicitor, his father being an independent minister.
Harold became an art student in his teens and by 1905 was submitting cartoons to the magazine 'Punch'. From the mid 1920s he lived as an illustrator for various magazines and he is reputed to have been a cartoonist for the London 'Evening Standard'. He exhibited at the RA, RI, NEAC, NS, PS and RBA. Read's reputation was revived in 1999 when a leading London Auction House held an important retrospective sale of his work. His work captured the colour and diversity of pre-War England |
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Please email or call +44 (0)20-7602 1959 for more information or to purchase this item. |
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FOR SALE |
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