View of L'Estaque

Maker

(artist)
1885-1963

Title

View of L'Estaque

Date of Production

(circa 1920's) 1920 - 1929

Medium

graphite and watercolour on wove paper, with multiple pinholes at all four corners and central edges

Dimensions

Height: 38.3 cm
Width: 29.6 cm

Accession Number

D.2016.XX.21

Mode of Acquisition

Brigid Peppin, gift, 2016

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Saunders made at least one painting trip to the south of France during the 1920s, following her return to figuration. This view of L’Estaque, near Marseille, is one of a small group that survives from the period. Although the flattened picture plane and tilted perspective recall her earlier work, major differences are apparent. The blazing colour of her Vorticist period has been replaced by softer tones. However, the same impulse to abstraction that runs through all her work can be seen here, more subtly.

Provenance

with the artist until her death in 1963; bequeathed to her sister, Ethel Saunders; bequeathed to her first cousin once removed, Helen Peppin, 1971; given to her daughter, Brigid Peppin, 1989; offered by her as a gift and part-purchase to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2016

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Helen Saunders, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/10/2022-29/01/2023

Helen Saunders (1885-1963), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 09/01/1996-03/03/1996; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 16/03/1996-20/04/1996

Post-Vorticism, Albemarle Gallery, London, 04/03/1992-03/04/1992

Literature

Peppin, Brigid, and Cork, Richard, Helen Saunders (1885-1963), exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Graves Art Gallery ,Sheffield, 1996
pp. 18, 49

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right, graphite: "G".

Collector's mark: none.

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