DOUGLAS PITTUCK MEETING OF THE WATERS OIL ON BOARD

Summer by the Tees at Meeting

of the Waters

Oil on board

Pine frame

665 x 845 mm

Unsigned

Exhibited at the  Douglas Pittuck Exhibition 11th -13th June St Mary’s Parish Hall Barnard Castle

Pittucks artistic influences were extensive. This work, in oil, demonstrates his experimental approach to the influence of Paul Cézanne. The scene is most likely Meeting of the Waters, where the river Greta flows into the Tees, 3 miles east of the town of Barnard Castle. As the scene portrays, Meeting of the Waters was a popular summer spot for picnickers and bathers. The work appears almost as an assembly of snapshots, rather like a photomontage with relatively flat colouring and distorted or compressed distances between small groups of people. Pittuck playfully paints Paul Cézanne in the scene with his distinctive hat, bag, and stick. This ‘foreign’ figure brings a sense of darkness and is emotionally detached from locals at play

Price: Sold (including exhibition catalogue)