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Titles
Suggested titles as follows:
- 'Pink and opal – Harbour' (1884, Dowdeswell). 1
- 'Marine' (1920, Knoedler's). 2
- 'Pink and Opal: Harbour' and 'Blue and Opal: Herring Fleet' (1980, YMSM). 3
- 'Blue and Opal: Herring Fleet' [sic] (2007, Sotheby's). 4
'Pink and Opal: Harbour' is the preferred title. It has sometimes been mistaken for another painting, Blue and Opal: Herring Fleet [YMSM 273].
Description
Pink and Opal: Harbour, Colby College Museum of Art
A horizontal panel, with a view across a beach to a harbour where many small fishing boats are moored. A pale blue-grey sky, and the masts of the boats, are reflected in the shallow water. Several figures are standing on the beach at left.
Site
The small but busy fishing harbour at St Ives, Cornwall, in south-west England.
Notes:
1: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 12).
2: Photographs, one dated 1920, and another sent to A. McL. Young, 1972, Knoedler Archives, New York.
3: YMSM 1980 [more], 'Pink and Opal: Harbour' (cat. no. 272), 'Blue and Opal: Herring Fleet' [sic] (cat. no. 273).
4: Sotheby's, New York, 28 November 2007 (lot 53).
Last updated: 17th April 2021 by Margaret
