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Edward Seago, RWS, RBA (British, 1910-1974) Le Maire Channel, Graham Land, Antarctic image 1
Edward Seago, RWS, RBA (British, 1910-1974) Le Maire Channel, Graham Land, Antarctic image 2
Edward Seago, RWS, RBA (British, 1910-1974) Le Maire Channel, Graham Land, Antarctic image 3
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Edward Seago, RWS, RBA
(British, 1910-1974)
Le Maire Channel, Graham Land, Antarctic

25 September 2024, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Edward Seago, RWS, RBA (British, 1910-1974)

Le Maire Channel, Graham Land, Antarctic
signed 'Edward Seago' (lower left); bears title 'THE LE MAIRE CHANNEL - GRAHAM LAND' (on the reverse)
oil on board
45.7 x 61cm (18 x 24in).

Footnotes

I hoped that Ted would find something to challenge his remarkable talent for landscape painting. Neither of us was disappointed. We could hardly tear him away from his easel to come to meals. He was fascinated by the icebergs, the colour of the sea between drifting pack-ice and the background of glaciers and snow-covered hills.
His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh in the foreword to J. W. Reid, Edward Seago, The Landscape Art, London, 1991.

In late 1956 and early 1957 Edward Seago accompanied His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh aboard The Royal Yacht Britannia on his voyage back to the United Kingdom after opening the Olympic Games in Melbourne. The Duke and Seago had become well acquainted during time spent in Norfolk making the artist the perfect travel companion for the long expedition. The journey allowed time for scientific research around the Antarctic Peninsula which gave Seago ample time to record the landscape. The oils painted on the journey were given by Seago to the Duke of Edinburgh as a mark of his appreciation for the opportunity, however he continued to paint similar versions of the same subjects.1

1J. W. Reid, Edward Seago, The Landscape Art, London, 1991, p. 226.

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