Thomas William Bowler
Lion'S Head And Sea Point From Green Point, Cape Of Good Hope
Found at
Christies,
London (Online Auction)
Topographical Pictures, including China Trade Paintings. ARCTIC · AMERICAS · AFRICA · ASIA · AUSTRALASIA · ANTARCTICA, Lot 42
5. Nov - 5. Nov 2020
Topographical Pictures, including China Trade Paintings. ARCTIC · AMERICAS · AFRICA · ASIA · AUSTRALASIA · ANTARCTICA, Lot 42
5. Nov - 5. Nov 2020
Estimate: 30.000 - 50.000 GBP
Price realised: 81.250 GBP
Price realised: 81.250 GBP
Description
oil on canvas
16 x 34in. (40.6 x 86.4cm.)
In no part of the world can the artist meet with finer scenery than that on our coast from Camps Bay to Sea Point , ...
T. W. Bowler
Bowler and his family moved from 3 Burg Street, Cape Town to Green Point in 1856. 'They appear to have stayed here for some months as in April 1857 he gave proceeds (£10) of a lottery of one of his pictures - Camps Bay - towards the costs of a melodium in the Green Point chapel. It is not irrelevant to mention here in passing that Bowler was a devout Christian.' (F. R. Bradlow, Thomas Bowler, His life and work, Cape Town, 1967, p.40).
For a watercolour of Green Point, probably taken a little further on towards Sea Point, past the present viewpoint, see Sotheby's/Stephan Welz, Cape Town, 23 Feb. 2010, lot 685 (Bradlow, no.501). See also lot 44 in this sale for another watercolour of the view looking back towards the Green Point Lighthouse. There are also two smaller canvases of Green Point subjects, 'Green Point Common', 1855 (Bradlow, no.154) and the view of Green Point taken a little further back on the road, with the lighth
Here Bowler provides a particularly animated foreground, the diagonal of the road leading the viewer across the picture from left to right: in the left foreground, the wet paint carefully worked by Bowler with the pointed handle of his brush, he paints a clump of Arum lilies (indicating the spring) and a stand of agaves above, a coulisse past which we glimpse a distant house on the hillside below Lion's Head. A seated figure by the fence watches as his dog, something of a Bowler signature (and p
The present canvas shares the wide format he favoured for his oils (and for many of his panoramic watercolours and printed views). See for example 'Mouille Point Lighthouse, 1868', 15 x 30in. (Bradlow, no.99), 'View of Table Bay from Robben Island in 1851', 19 x 32in. (Bradlow, no.132). Not in Bradlow who recorded just nine extant oils by the artist in 1967, this is a previously unrecorded work by the artist, and one of his finest and most descriptive oils of Cape scenery.
16 x 34in. (40.6 x 86.4cm.)
In no part of the world can the artist meet with finer scenery than that on our coast from Camps Bay to Sea Point , ...
T. W. Bowler
Bowler and his family moved from 3 Burg Street, Cape Town to Green Point in 1856. 'They appear to have stayed here for some months as in April 1857 he gave proceeds (£10) of a lottery of one of his pictures - Camps Bay - towards the costs of a melodium in the Green Point chapel. It is not irrelevant to mention here in passing that Bowler was a devout Christian.' (F. R. Bradlow, Thomas Bowler, His life and work, Cape Town, 1967, p.40).
For a watercolour of Green Point, probably taken a little further on towards Sea Point, past the present viewpoint, see Sotheby's/Stephan Welz, Cape Town, 23 Feb. 2010, lot 685 (Bradlow, no.501). See also lot 44 in this sale for another watercolour of the view looking back towards the Green Point Lighthouse. There are also two smaller canvases of Green Point subjects, 'Green Point Common', 1855 (Bradlow, no.154) and the view of Green Point taken a little further back on the road, with the lighth
Here Bowler provides a particularly animated foreground, the diagonal of the road leading the viewer across the picture from left to right: in the left foreground, the wet paint carefully worked by Bowler with the pointed handle of his brush, he paints a clump of Arum lilies (indicating the spring) and a stand of agaves above, a coulisse past which we glimpse a distant house on the hillside below Lion's Head. A seated figure by the fence watches as his dog, something of a Bowler signature (and p
The present canvas shares the wide format he favoured for his oils (and for many of his panoramic watercolours and printed views). See for example 'Mouille Point Lighthouse, 1868', 15 x 30in. (Bradlow, no.99), 'View of Table Bay from Robben Island in 1851', 19 x 32in. (Bradlow, no.132). Not in Bradlow who recorded just nine extant oils by the artist in 1967, this is a previously unrecorded work by the artist, and one of his finest and most descriptive oils of Cape scenery.
A top price for Thomas William Bowler
In November 2020 Christies in London held the auction Topographical Pictures, including China Trade Paintings. ARCTIC · AMERICAS · AFRICA · ASIA · AUSTRALASIA · ANTARCTICA, which included the work Lion'S Head And Sea Point From Green Point, Cape Of Good Hope by Thomas William Bowler. The »bidding war« ended at GBP 81,250.00 (€ 90,702.42), 63% above the upper estimate. This high result makes Lion'S Head And Sea Point From Green Point, Cape Of Good Hope the most expensive artwork by Thomas William Bowler that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Thomas William Bowler
Im November 2020 führte Christies in London die Auktion Topographical Pictures, including China Trade Paintings. ARCTIC · AMERICAS · AFRICA · ASIA · AUSTRALASIA · ANTARCTICA durch, in der auch die Arbeit Lion'S Head And Sea Point From Green Point, Cape Of Good Hope von Thomas William Bowler zur Versteigerung kam. Das »Bietergefecht« endete beim Preis von GBP 81.250,00 (€ 90.702,42) und damit 63% über dem oberen Schätzpreis. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Lion'S Head And Sea Point From Green Point, Cape Of Good Hope zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Thomas William Bowler, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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