MARY FEDDEN. FAREWELL. 1999. SOLD
MARY FEDDEN FOR SALE. “FAREWELL” 1999. SOLD
Size: 9.25” x 7.25” (23.5cm x 18.5cm)
Medium: Gouache on handmade paper
Signed and dated: “Fedden 1999”
Framing: Mounted and framed behind glass in a handcrafted excellent quality dark wood frame by Leonard Villa, London N1
Condition: The painting is in excellent condition throughout
Provenance: Emer Gallery, Belfast, in 2002 where purchased by a private collector
MARY FEDDEN. FAREWELL. 1999.
Mary Fedden frequently returned to this theme of a girl on windy beach looking out to sea. ‘Farewell’ is a gouache from 1999, depicting a mother with her baby, presumably watching as the father of the child steams off over the horizon in his ship. Who knows when he will return?
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.”
MARY FEDDEN FAREWELL. 1999.
