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This spirited sketch was used in the preparation for one of...

This spirited sketch was used in the preparation for one of...

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This spirited sketch was used in the preparation for one of Constable’s celebrated ‘Six-Footers’ showing Chain Pier, Brighton, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1827 and is now at @tate. The sketch was kept in the artist’s studio until his death in 1837, when it passed to his daughter Isabel, before being offered for sale at Christie’s in 1892. It later formed part of the distinguished Chéramy and Hatvany collections, when it was heralded as anticipating Impressionism in its truth to nature and in the spontaneity of its handling.
John Constable, Beaching a Boat, Brighton. Estimate GBP 500,000 - GBP 800,000.
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