Lefever, Geoffrey - Bellegarde Provence (2)

Artist: Lefever, Geoffrey
Materials: Watercolour
Dimensions (cm): 44.5 x 58
Dimensions (inches): 17.5 x 22.8
Signature: Signed, titled and dated lower right
Frame: Mounted
Stock No: DH043
Price: £150

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Genre: Landscape
Tags: Choose a tag France Provence South of france

Description

Most of our collection of Geoffrey Lefever's work dates from around 1969 to 1971, the early part of his career.  Many are inspired by the landscape of North Norfolk, where he still lives, as well as the Essex marshes and Provence.

Bellgarde, the locality of this painting, is a Provencal village in Van Gogh territory between Arles and Nimes. Geoffrey spent the winter of 1969 in the region.

These early paintings were all acquired in the early 1970s by enthusiatic collector Richard Cory Smith, who later gifted them to a friend in whose home they had been stored, all but forgotten, until we found them along with early works from Nicholas Barnham, Charles Duranty, and Cavendish Morton.