Courtyard Caprice

Sir William Russell Flint

P.R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W., R.O.I., R.E.


russell flint watercolour, Courtyard caprice
Courtyard caprice
Original watercolour
Image size 49 x 66.5 cm. (19 1/4 x 26 1/8 in.)
PROVENANCE: With The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, where acquired by the family of the present owner; ... a Private South African Collection
Sold for £51,600
November, 2007
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT P.R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W., R.O.I., R.E

A lively, yet intricate painting, very much in Russell Flint's style.
A group of girls playing by what appears to be a pool or bath, but is probably la Lavoir,
where everyone congregates to wash their clothes and exchage the current gossip,
Obviously in this scene there is some sort of 'caprice' being played out by one of the girls.
The figures in the painting are Cecilia Green, which dates the work somewhere between 1953 and 1966.

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morningdinard
angevininterior
the blue tent, Parame
bourdeillessurdronne
bronze and silver
portraitofdenise
charlotte
dance of a thousand flounces
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dragon
St. Jean de Cole, well
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holiday after ramadan
mathilda's kitchen
model and critic, painting
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Osier
pink wash, france
Rosalinda
phyllissalone
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salamanders, st. Tropez
sandrine
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sirens
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La porte Chapelle Compiegne
springtimeintheardeche
track across the dunes
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under the sundial, Cobonne
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washerwomenbythedrome
picnicatlaroche
picnicatturnawarepoint