Henry Scott Tuke painting may fetch up to £50,000 (From York Press)
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Henry Scott Tuke painting may fetch up to £50,000
8:22am Friday 28th January 2011 in News
Henry Scott Tuke painting may fetch up to £50,000
THIS painting by a prolific York-born artist is to be sold at auction in London.
The artwork, entitled Sleeping Sailor, was created by Henry Scott Tuke.
The painting initially sold for £15 to an Arthur Taylor, and has attracted a pre-sale estimate of between £30,000 and £50,000.
Sleeping Sailor was painted on board a derelict French barque, Mazatlan, which Tuke used as a temporary floating studio during the summer of 1905. His model, shown posing on the boom, was called Harry Cleave.
Born in York in 1858, Tuke and his family moved to Falmouth in 1859. Later, he moved to Newlyn, Cornwall, where he became part of the Newlyn School of painters.
The sale will take place at the New Bond Street auction rooms of Bonhams on March 22.
