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JAMES BARKLEY. "The Meeting." [DRINKS / BAR]
JAMES BARKLEY."The Meeting." Illustration published in the novel The Estuary Pilgrim by Douglas Skeggs (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989). Watercolor, acrylic wash, and pencil on board. 610x450 mm; 24x17¾ inches. Unsigned. Adhered to window matte along verso edges.This image of a moody, clandestine meeting over drinks was created for Skeggs's novel about an international art fraud involving a painting by Monet (titled "The Estuary Pilgrim") thought destroyed, but discovered among other Nazi-appropriated masterpieces in a Resistance ambush in 1944.
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JAMES BARKLEY."The Meeting." Illustration published in the novel The Estuary Pilgrim by Douglas Skeggs (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989). Watercolor, acrylic wash, and pencil on board. 610x450 mm; 24x17¾ inches. Unsigned. Adhered to window matte along verso edges.This image of a moody, clandestine meeting over drinks was created for Skeggs's novel about an international art fraud involving a painting by Monet (titled "The Estuary Pilgrim") thought destroyed, but discovered among other Nazi-appropriated masterpieces in a Resistance ambush in 1944.
