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Alec & Barbara FlemingPaintings, drawings and works on paper

Reference photograph, catalogue sheet 21

Cat. 84 · Painting

Sky Scrapers

Assigned title

Attributed to Alec Fleming

Date not recorded

Medium
Oil on hard board
Dimensions
50 cm × 40 cmAs recorded in the catalogue
Date
Date not recorded
Signature
Not recorded
Catalogue no.
Cat. 84
Source
Catalogue, entry 84
Status
Private collection
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Description

Tall obelisks and imagined buildings towering above smaller tenements against a deep blue sky.

Commentary

Painted in an almost naive style. This almost abstract colour blocked painting is experimental for Alec Fleming. Painted with rapidity, the scrubbed and scumbled visible brushwork and little attention to detail suggest the mould breaking of mid period Alec rather than Barbara Fleming.

Attribution

Attributed to Alec Fleming.

Given to Alec Fleming in the catalogue.

Catalogue wording: “Alec Fleming”

How attributions are worded

Verso

A Fleming.

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

Poor. Damage to top left corner. Flattening to bottom right.

Provenance and research

Research notes

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

Further works

Alec Fleming