Lot 83: Henry Herbert La Thangue, R.A. (1859-1929)

A Proven‡al Landscape, Bormes signed 'H.H. LA THANGUE' (lower left), signed again and inscribed '"A Proven‡al landscape"/H.H. La Thangue' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.) PROVENANCE Doris R. Blaber, September 1934. EXHIBITION Brighton, Public Art Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Works by the late H.H. La Thangue, R.A., September 1930, no. 26. NOTES Discussing the three extensive landscapes A Proven‡al Morning (Oldham Art Gallery), A Ligurian Valley (Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston Upon Hull), and A Mountain Frontier (Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery), Kenneth McConkey comments: 'These three landscapes were all shown at La Thangue's one-man exhibition at the Leicester Galleries [April 1914] which was evident of a desire to renovate his style. They mark a new departure in that they abandon the familiar mosaic of flat touches for a more grainy texture suited to conveying a sense of humid atmosphere. In addition they present us with the first wide vistas to be seen in his work and their conventional landscape formats in some instances recall Corot and Constable' ( A Painter's Harvest Henry Herbert La Thangue 1859-1929, Oldham Art Gallery exhibition catalogue, 1978, p. 47).