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MODERN PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS & WATERCOLOURS
378* Banner (Delmar Harmood, 1896-1983). The Solitary, The Wanderer, and The Poet, 1944, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 915 x 1140 mm (36 x 45 ins), gilt frame Provenance: Private collection, UK. By descent from the original owner. Delmar Harmood Banner was born in Germany, but studied at Cheltenham, Oxford and the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art between 1919 and 1927. He lived at Little Langdale, Ambleside in the Lake District, and was married to the sculptor Josephina de Vasconcellos where they became close friends of Beatrix Potter. The present work, a variation on a painting by the artist, which was on view at the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in the Langdale Valley, was commissioned by the present owner’s father directly from the artist, for which he paid 150 guineas. Based on Wordsworth’s poem The Excursion, the scene depicts Blea Tarn and the Langdale Pikes and includes a portrait of the poet sitting on the rock to the right. Four handwritten letters and a handwritten postcard from the artist to the original owner are included with this lot, dated September 10th 1943 to April 28 1944. £700-1000 (1)
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