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Alec & Barbara FlemingPaintings, drawings and works on paper

Reference photograph, catalogue sheet 52

Cat. 209 · Painting

The Field of Gold

Assigned title

Possibly Barbara Fleming (attribution uncertain)

Date not recorded

Medium
Oil on hard board
Dimensions
50.7 cm × 45 cmAs recorded in the catalogue
Date
Date not recorded
Signature
Not recorded
Catalogue no.
Cat. 209
Source
Catalogue, entry 209
Status
Private collection
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Description

Farm buildings with pan tiled roof and appentis, with hills climbing to the distance.

Commentary

Stylistically and compositionally this feels like B Fleming working from sketches or photographic references with a flat and clean bright palette and little impasto.

Attribution

Possibly Barbara Fleming (attribution uncertain).

The catalogue’s attribution is itself tentative; it is reproduced above and not resolved here.

Catalogue wording: “B Fleming ?”

How attributions are worded

Verso

A Fleming Contact marks to the verso in white paint.

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

Fair. Paint lifting top centre. Some flatenning top right.

Provenance and research

Research notes

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

Further works

Barbara Fleming