JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 12 October 2021 - 10:00 AM start

Sydney Lough Thompson (1877-1973)

Lot Details

Tunisian Street Archway, oil on canvas board, signed, 530 x 440mm. CONDITION REPORT: The work is oils on coarse weave canvas laid on hardboard. It’s typical of Thompson’s work incorporating areas of impasto technique in the application of the oil paint, notably in the area of light falling on the ground through the arch and the blue/pink citadel wall to the background, and in other areas the paint is applied thinly, such as lower left foreground and left edge. There are scattered flyspots to the surface but it’s generally clean. There are pinholes around the outside edge where it was evidently pinned to a wall prior to framing, some of these are hidden by the 9mm rebate of the frame but three are just visible top left and top edge of image in the frame. The work was previously offered at Webb’s auctions in 1996, corresponding to two labels to the reverse (Webb’s consignment label and lot sticker (894). With its initial offering offering in September 1996, it failed to sell (estimated at $15,000-$20,000), it was subsequently offered in December 1996 (Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000) where is sold for $8800 including buyer’s premium. Two similar Tunisian archway subjects appear in database records (there are also French archway subjects recorded). The frame is paint finished, a chip to the paint left hand side and a 105mm sliver chip to the bottom right-hand edge. Additional photos