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Alec & Barbara FlemingPaintings, drawings and works on paper

Reference photograph, catalogue sheet 26

Cat. 101 · Painting

Boats Off The Shore

Assigned title

Attributed to Alec Fleming

Date not recorded

Medium
Oil on hard board
Dimensions
30.5 cm × 21 cmAs recorded in the catalogue
Date
Date not recorded
Signature
No signature.
Catalogue no.
Cat. 101
Source
Catalogue, entry 101
Status
Private collection
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Description

Boats on the water with a city scape on the shoreline.

Commentary

A very rapid, fluid en plein aire sketch of boats off an urban shoreline. The impasto and directional brush strokes suggest Alec Fleming in France. The sketch gives just enough information to inform a future painting.

Attribution

Attributed to Alec Fleming.

Given to Alec Fleming in the catalogue.

Catalogue wording: “Alec Fleming No signature”

How attributions are worded

Signature and inscriptions

No signature.

Verso

A Fleming Some random blue paint marks.

The reverse is marked “A Fleming” in block capitals. Many boards in the collection carry this marking, and some of them are considered to be by Barbara Fleming. The marking may record ownership rather than authorship and is not treated here as evidence of attribution.

Condition

Good Un varnished A single piercing top centre, likely from informal hanging.

Provenance and research

Research notes

  • The title is marked [assigned] in the catalogue.

Further works

Alec Fleming