Mediterranean Harbour, French Riviera Cote D'azur, View from a Boat, Antique Watercolour on Paper

1920 - 1940

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Description

Artist Wendela Boreel painted the watercolour presented here while living in the South of France - and it shows!

Depicted is of course a harbour on the cote d'Azur - Villefranche, perhaps? - as seen from a boat, with a sail in the foreground.

Painted in the 1930s or 1940s, it has the "joie de Vivre" typical for the French Riviera, with warm mediterranean colours and a pointillist touch.

Wendela was born in France in 1886 to an American mother and a Dutch diplomat father. She came to live in England when her father was posted to London. The family had a home on Tite Street, just up the road from Oscar Wilde’s house. Wendela became friends with her neighbour Frank Schuster, and moved in the circles of John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Elgar, Siegfried Sassoon, W.B. Yeates, Thomas Hardy and Roger Fry. Wendela studied at the Slade School of Art, and attended Walter Sickert’s evening classes. As her outstanding talent manifested itself, she soon became Sickert's protegé and assistant. Boreel's first solo exhibition was in 1919 at Walker's Gallery. She also had shows at the New English Art Club, the Allied Artist’s Association, and the London Group. Widowed at the age of only 39, she returned to the South of France.

Works by Wendela Boreel are held in the Government Art Collection, the V&A Museum as well as in the British Museum in the UK. The Museum of Modern Art MOMA in New York also possesses a work by her. For further information on the artist, please request the Skippings Fine Art Summer newsletter, which is dedicated to Wendela Boreel and her work..

Our watercolour on paper is unsigned, but came to me directly from the artist's estate, and I unreservedly guarantee its authenticity. Measuring 16 x 26 cm at sight, the overall framed size is 46 x 55 cm.

Physical Dimensions

Height

16cm (6.30")

Width

26cm (10.24")

Depth

1cm (0.39")

Declaration

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1940s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA720912

Dealers Notes

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Description

Artist Wendela Boreel painted the watercolour presented here while living in the South of France - and it shows!

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Depicted is of course a harbour on the cote d'Azur - Villefranche, perhaps? - as seen from a boat, with a sail in the foreground.

Skippings Fine Arts

fig 1. Mediterranean harbour, French Riviera Cote d'Azur, view from a boat, antique watercolour on paper — fig 1. Mediterranean Harbour, French Riviera Cote D'azur, View from a Boat, Antique Watercolour on Paper

Painted in the 1930s or 1940s, it has the "joie de Vivre" typical for the French Riviera, with warm mediterranean colours and a pointillist touch.

Wendela was born in France in 1886 to an American mother and a Dutch diplomat father. She came to live in England when her father was posted to London. The family had a home on Tite Street, just up the road from Oscar Wilde’s house. Wendela became friends with her neighbour Frank Schuster, and moved in the circles of John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Elgar, Siegfried Sassoon, W.B. Yeates, Thomas Hardy and Roger Fry. Wendela studied at the Slade School of Art, and attended Walter Sickert’s evening classes. As her outstanding talent manifested itself, she soon became Sickert's protegé and assistant. Boreel's first solo exhibition was in 1919 at Walker's Gallery. She also had shows at the New English Art Club, the Allied Artist’s Association, and the London Group. Widowed at the age of only 39, she returned to the South of France.

fig 2. Mediterranean harbour, French Riviera Cote d'Azur, view from a boat, antique watercolour on paper — fig 2. Mediterranean Harbour, French Riviera Cote D'azur, View from a Boat, Antique Watercolour on Paper

Works by Wendela Boreel are held in the Government Art Collection, the V&A Museum as well as in the British Museum in the UK. The Museum of Modern Art MOMA in New York also possesses a work by her. For further information on the artist, please request the Skippings Fine Art Summer newsletter, which is dedicated to Wendela Boreel and her work..

fig 3. Mediterranean harbour, French Riviera Cote d'Azur, view from a boat, antique watercolour on paper — fig 3. Mediterranean Harbour, French Riviera Cote D'azur, View from a Boat, Antique Watercolour on Paper

Our watercolour on paper is unsigned, but came to me directly from the artist's estate, and I unreservedly guarantee its authenticity. Measuring 16 x 26 cm at sight, the overall framed size is 46 x 55 cm.