$28,000
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: December 8, 2019 2:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'G.L. Noyes' bottom left; also [erroneously] inscribed with title 'Florentine Twilight' on stretcher verso, oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2cm)
Executed circa 1910.
Provenance: Private Collection, Maine.
NOTE:
George Loftus Noyes was originally a native of Ontario, born to American citizens living in Canada in search of oil. After the untimely death of his father, he moved to East Cambridge, Massachusetts, and worked for the New England Glass Company, applying floral and fruit motifs onto glass. He later sailed for Paris, where he learned to paint en plein air, and then journeyed to Italy and Algeria, whose exotic environments served as inspiration. Featured in the present sale are two excellent examples of works from his time spent in Italy, including a quintessential Venetian canal scene at twilight, imbued with soft greens and blues, as well as a waterscape of the Bay of Naples, replete with beacons of light reflecting in the serene water (Lot 39). Noyes returned to Boston in 1893, establishing a studio and traveling all over New England, painting landscapes as he went. Two American scenes are also featured in the sale (Lots 40 and 41), including a local scene of a Mill Stream in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania depicting a charming brick mill amid colorful trees, and a striking view of Mount Washington in autumn, showcasing a bold, blue sky full of clouds and the mountainside dappled with fall foliage.