MARY FEDDEN. BY THE SEA. 1982. FOR SALE
MARY FEDDEN. BY THE SEA. 1982. FOR SALE
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Size: 9.5” x 6.5” (24cm x 16.5cm)
Medium: Gouache on handmade paper
Signed and dated: “Fedden 1982”
Framing: Currently in a very simple wooden frame. I think the new owner may well choose to have it reframed. This is reflected in the price
Provenance: Purchased directly from Mary Fedden by the previous owner.
MARY FEDDEN. BY THE SEA. 1982.
Mary Fedden frequently returned to this theme of a girl on windy beach looking out to sea, often incorporating an older lady carrying a dark umbrella. ‘By the sea’ is a gouache from 1982, painted in a subtle colour palette of whites, browns, greys and greens that are really typical of Mary Fedden. The young girl playing in the wind and the sailing boat in the background contrast dramatically with the the older lady in the foreground, dressed in black with her black umbrella, leaning into the wind and the driving rain.
It is a lovely example of Mary Fedden working in gouache, her favourite medium, alongside oil paint. As Christopher Andreae writes in his book Mary Fedden Enigmas and Variations, “On the whole, her gouaches are small. She has a range of subjects and themes she only paints in gouache. Perhaps the more intimate scale allows for experiment and a degree of fantasy, dreaming or poetry. Her gouaches can be quite free, suggestive and atmospheric.”
