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Alec & Barbara FlemingPaintings, drawings and works on paper

Reference photograph, catalogue sheet 23

Cat. 92 · Painting

Woman In a Blue Sweater

Assigned title

Attributed to Alec Fleming

Date not recorded

Medium
Oil on hard board
Dimensions
50.2 cm × 40 cmAs recorded in the catalogue
Date
Date not recorded
Signature
No signature.
Catalogue no.
Cat. 92
Source
Catalogue, entry 92
Status
Private collection
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Description

A woman with sandy mid length hair in a blue sweater with a white collar. Painted in half portrait against a vertically split red and green background.

Commentary

A later work by Alec Fleming The use of reserved, white primed canvas to indicate the fall of light is particularly effective and suggests late career A Fleming most likely painted from life, in England. The use of flat brush work to denote light on the face is typical of this period of his work..

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 small script to the top. Some random white 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

Un varnished. Good.

Provenance and research

Research notes

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

Further works

Alec Fleming