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Alec & Barbara FlemingPaintings, drawings and works on paper

Reference photograph, catalogue sheet 6

Cat. 23 · Painting

The Village Square

Assigned title

Attributed to Alec Fleming

Date not recorded

Medium
Oil on hardboard- unvarnished
Dimensions
50.5 cm × 40.5 cmAs recorded in the catalogue
Date
Date not recorded
Signature
No signature.
Catalogue no.
Cat. 23
Source
Catalogue, entry 23
Status
Private collection
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Description

A small crowd moving through a village street or square. Possibly in France with a bare tree to the right hand side.

Commentary

A scene full of movement, with suggested figures, some in contre jour, and roughly scrubbed in shadows. The wood and stone houses with vernacular architecture suggestive of rural France are caught in strong sunlight. The light palette and strong flat brush work with visible painterly marks suggest mid period Alec Fleming. Highly likely to have been painted in situ.

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 in block capitals- marker. Some tentative pencil marks, possibly a first pass at the sketch, on the toothed side of the board.

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 slight water marking to the reverse- possible storage related.

Provenance and research

Research notes

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

Further works

Alec Fleming