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Dans un Grenier (In an Attic)

Lionel Percy Smythe (1839-1918)

Price
£7,500
Signed
Signed and dated 1912
Signed and inscribed with title and 'Chateau a Honvault, par Wimereux, Pas de Calais' on a label on reverse
Medium
Watercolour
Dimensions
28 ½ x 18 ½ inches
Literature
Old Water-Colour Society Club, 1923, vol 1, page 76
Exhibited
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1912, no 1061;
Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours, Winter 1912, no 627;
'Chris Beetles Summer Show 2025', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, June-September 2025, no 23;
'Chris Beetles Summer Show 2026', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, June-September 2026

L P Smythe exhibited this work in the Royal Academy in 1912, the year he was elected to full membership and in the catalogue as “RA Elect”.

'In all Smythe's work every minute detail – perspective, colour, tone, value, etc. – was studied with the greatest care. He never worked on any picture without either a model or a careful study. He not only studied the character of his sitters, but even the train of thought elicited by some particular action. His young mothers are always dreamy and seem to contemplate some far away object – for instance, the girl who rocks the cradle in Dans un Grenier and Souvenir, and in the beautiful water-colour of the Portel girl net-making, it is easy to see that her thoughts have strayed far from the work in hand.'
Old Water-Colour Society's Club, 1923-1924, vol 1, page 66

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