Percé Rock, Grey Morning
29.8 cms x 40 cms (11.75 ins x 15.75 ins)
Signed and dated 1942 lower left; titled on the reverse
made in 1942
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art (Live Auction)" held on Tue, Nov 22, 2016.
Lot 33
Lot 33
Realised: CAD $5,750
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Zwicker's Gallery, Halifax
Private Collection, Nova Scotia
Notes:
Stanley Royle was born in 1888 in Stalybridge, Lancashire, and studied art at the Sheffield Technical School of Art. He worked as an illustrator for various local newspapers before exhibiting semi-professionally in London for the first time in 1911. The following year he exhibited at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool. In 1913 he had three works accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy, the maximum number for a non - Academician. He continued to have works accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy on a regular basis throughout the course of his career showing a total of thirty-nine works there.
Zwicker's Gallery, Halifax
Private Collection, Nova Scotia
Notes:
Stanley Royle was born in 1888 in Stalybridge, Lancashire, and studied art at the Sheffield Technical School of Art. He worked as an illustrator for various local newspapers before exhibiting semi-professionally in London for the first time in 1911. The following year he exhibited at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool. In 1913 he had three works accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy, the maximum number for a non - Academician. He continued to have works accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy on a regular basis throughout the course of his career showing a total of thirty-nine works there.
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