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25 Jan 2012 2 p.m. London, New Bond Street
19th Century Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours
Auction 19571

173

Harold Harvey (British, 1874-1941)

Tin miners
signed and dated 'HAROLD HARVEY 1939.' (lower right), inscribed with title and artist's name and address on a label attached to the reverse
oil on canvas
101.5 x 76cm (39 15/16 x 29 15/16in).

Sold for £40,850 inc. premium

Footnotes

EXHIBITED:
London, Royal Academy, 1939, no. 383

LITERATURE:
Kenneth McConkey et al, Harold Harvey, Painter of Cornwall, Bristol, 2001, p. 163, cat. no. 519

In the present lot, Harold Harvey has returned to a theme he first visited in 1935 with Cornish Miners (RA 1936, no. 735, and exhibited elswhere as St. Just Tin Miners, now in the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro). The sitters in that work have been idenfied as 'authentic local characters' Sidney Angrove (left) and Nicholas Grenfell (right)¹. Harvey uses the same sitters in the present work.

¹ Kenneth McConkey et al, Harold Harvey, Painter of Cornwall, Bristol, 2001, p. 120.