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Mount Olympus from Larissa, Greece

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Artist

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Watercolour over traces of pencil.
Lear visited Mount Olympus on his first visit to Greece in the spring of 1848. Travelling alone he went to Yannina and then over the Metsovo Pass to the Vale of Tempe and Mount Olympus. He returned there in 1864 recording in his journals:
'Starting at about seven, we held a southward course; the plain was one unvaried green undulation. Larissa, and even Olympus, except now and then its highest peaks, are soon lost to sight -- and it is only from some eminence -- that anything like a satisfactory drawing can be made -- yet the very simplicity, the extreme exaggeration of the character of a plain is not without its facination; and the vast lines of Thessaly have a wild and dream-like charm of poetry about them, of which it is impossible for pen or pencil to give a fully adequate idea.' (Journals of a landscape painter in Albania, pp. 416-417).

The finished nature of the present watercolour and the lack of pen and ink and his customary notes suggests that this is a studio work. He drew this view a number of times. A finished studio work in watercolour is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York and an oil was sold at Christie’s New York on 25th January 2012, lot 57 for $104,500.

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Mount Olympus, Greece

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