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Lot 96AR

Sir William Russell Flint, RA, PRWS
(British, 1880-1969)
The Paid Dancer

28 September 2016, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Sir William Russell Flint, RA, PRWS (British, 1880-1969)

The Paid Dancer
signed 'W.RUSSELL FLINT' (lower left)
watercolour
35.5 x 51.5cm (14 x 20 1/4in).

Footnotes

In the catalogue of his 1962 one-man exhibition at the Royal Academy, Flint wrote:

'That Sunday of March, 1961, Adrian Bury and I stood side by side on the El Minza terrace. We might have been painting for dear life and dearer honour so earnest were we, and so intent on accomplishing something, before the light failed. We had just arrived from London and had enjoyed - in my case only for the second time - the impact of North African colour and movement. Now we were revelling in the cooler aspect of polyglot Tangier. Then, when daylight had gone, Adrian told me what he had written in his big book on Joseph Crawhall (whose achievements in water-colour I salute) and about some of the other artists, our Royal Academy's John Lavery among them, who had found Tangier a congenial playground. Their merry doings make good reading and are rather apt to stir up feeling which, with just a little magnification, might be analysed as envy.'
(Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of works by Sir William Russell Flint RA, PPRWS,, London, 1962, p.31).

He and Adrian Bury were to travel on to Egypt together.

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