Cement factory at L'Estaque (2)

Maker

(artist)
1885-1963

Title

Date of Production

(circa 1920's) 1920 - 1929

Medium

graphite on wove paper, the left edge perforated as torn from a notebook

Dimensions

Height: 33.1 cm
Width: 25.9 cm

Accession Number

D.2016.XX.24

Mode of Acquisition

Brigid Peppin, gift, 2016

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

'Cement Factory at L’Estaque' is one of Saunders’s only watercolours for which a preparatory study survives. It offers a valuable insight into her practice, suggesting that she made full compositional sketches in graphite for works in colour. The perforated edge of the graphite study suggests that it was made from life, in a sketchbook. The watercolour (D.2016.XX.23) would have been worked up later in the studio. Although the study is on a smaller sheet, the composition is more expansive; in the watercolour, the buildings appear more boxed in by their surroundings. Saunders’s finished compositions seem to rely on a combination of first-hand observation and later reflection away from the motif.

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

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: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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