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Alec & Barbara FlemingPaintings, drawings and works on paper

Reference photograph, catalogue sheet 37

Cat. 151 · Painting

Wagons

Assigned title

Attributed to Barbara Fleming

Date not recorded

Medium
Oil on toothed side of hard board
Dimensions
Not recorded
Date
Date not recorded
Signature
Unsigned.
Catalogue no.
Cat. 151
Source
Catalogue, entry 151
Status
Private collection
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Description

Three wagons in a train parked beneath a tree in a sunlit square. Baroque style church in the background surrounded by village houses.

Commentary

Barbara shows the influence of southern French painters such as Rouault and Dufy in her skittering outlines of thin paint, suggested figures multi directional short brush strokes particularly in the sky. Possibly painte d in France en plein aire.

Attribution

Attributed to Barbara Fleming.

Given to Barbara Fleming in the catalogue.

Catalogue wording: “Barbara Fleming Unsigned”

How attributions are worded

Signature and inscriptions

Unsigned.

Verso

A Fleming in blue marker.

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. Some flattening to the bottom right corner Unvarnished.

Provenance and research

Research notes

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

Further works

Barbara Fleming