Charles Sykes (1875-1950)
The Rainbow, 1944
£12,000
Adrian Scott Stokes (1854-1935)
Evening on the Plain
Oil on panel; signed
7 ½ x 10 ¾ inches
Exhibitions
An Exhibition of Pictures painted in Austria-Hungary by Marianne and Adrian Stokes, Ernest Brown & Phillips, Leicester Galleries, Hogarth Room, Leicester Square, March-April 1907 , no 7 as Evening on the Plains
Possibly Nemzeti Salon in Budapest, December 1910 - January 1911, Adrian és Marianne Stokes Minálunk, no. 10 entitled in translation ‘Atmosphere of the night at the Edge of the Puszta'
Adrian Stokes, 'a sensitive and glowing colourist' (C Lewis Hind), came to live in St. Ives in Cornwall in 1886 at the invitation of Stanhope Forbes. He and his painter wife Marianne had spent time in France, at Fontainebleau, where he met the Barbizon painters, and at Pont-Aven, where, through his wife, he became a firm friend of the Danish artist Peder Severin Krøyer. He remembered early advice from Whistler, who was kind to him, saying 'the first moment is the artist's moment', and applied this advice to his impressionist method.
Thanks to Magdalen Evans.
