Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Albert Goodwin
- Art Funded
- 2008
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 26.7 cm
- Art Fund grant
- £5,250 (Total: £6,875)
- Vendor
- Christie's
This watercolour of Stonehenge is full of atmosphere and feeling.
It is unusual for Goodwin to produce abstract work as most of his painting is figurative. Albert Goodwin is a key figure in the development in the medium of watercolour forming a bridge between historic figures and groups such as Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites and Ruskin. The work has some parallels with Turners later work, and raises the opportunity for the museum to explore abstraction as a movement within the medium of watercolour.
Provenance
Matthew Biggar Walker; Christies, 1994; Sothebys, 2000; private collection; Christie's, 2000. The work has been vetted by the Art Loss Register.