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Lot 712
Description:
George Henry Clement (American/Louisiana, 1854-1935), "Entertainment in the Park", c. 1885, watercolor over pencil on paper, signed upper left, sight 8 in. x 9 1/4 in., matted and framed.
- Notes: Note: Clements spent his youth on his mother's Toledano family plantation near Opelousas, LA, and clerked at the New Orleans Cotton Exchange before taking up the profession of painter in 1880, when he joined the Union Art League in New York. He spent 1881-1887 in Paris, his first years were at the prestigious Académies Julian and Colarossi. After sojourns in Boston and Charleston he settled around 1901 in New York, but made frequent trips both to Paris and to the South, where he specialized in coastal scenes and ships. Though he also painted on Cape Cod and in Santa Barbara, it was as an essentially Southern painter that he was principally known. Henry Clements exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Salmagundi Club; he was a member of the Boston and New York watercolor clubs, and was later active in the Santa Barbara Art Association. He died in Oberlin, LA, in 1935 This fine and characteristic watercolor was very probably painted in Paris in c. 1881-1884, and may actually incorporate a self-portrait as the principal music-making figure. Its careful composition and lively sense of color show the artist at his youthful best.
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