A Flemish peasant signed 'WALTER LANGLEY' (lower left) oil on canvas 102 x 93cm (40 3/16 x 36 5/8in).
Sold for
£25,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
PROVENANCE: Sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 1994, lot 22 Sale, Sotheby's London, 15 November 2011, lot 86 Private collection, UK
EXHIBITED: London, Royal Academy, 1907, no. 290 Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 1907 Southport Art Gallery, 1908 Manchester, Royal Manchester Institution, 1908 Newlyn, Passmore Edwards Gallery, 1910 Plymouth, City Museum and Art Gallery, 1910 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Annual Exhibition of European Art, 1912, no. 169
LITERATURE: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1907 Roger Langley, Walter Langley: Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony, 1907, pp. 135, 171, ill. p. 129 Roger Langley, Walter Langley, From Birmingham to Newlyn, 2011, p.92-93.