Edward Holroyd Pearce (1901–1990)
Mountain Splendour AN EXHIBITION OF ALPINE VIEWS
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AN EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY
Edward Holroyd Pearce (1901–1990) Exhibition: 5th December to 1st March 2013
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 9am – 6pm Friday 9am – 12pm Evenings by appointment Works from the exhibition are available for purchase from receipt of this brochure. All pictures are sold framed. JAMES HARVEY BRITISH ART 15 Langton Street, Chelsea, London SW10 0JL T: +44 (0)20 7352 0015 | E: james@jhba.co.uk W: www.jamesharveybritishart.com PREVIOUS
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ord of the Mountains was the title given to an exhibition of mountain scenes painted by Edward Holroyd Pearce and shown in a gallery at Chur in Switzerland in 1977. Edward was a compulsive painter of mountains and this love grew from the time he spent convalescing from TB in Montana in 1932. From his bed in the sanatorium he could see the opaque green waters of the Rhine, the sunlit upper slopes of the Ilhorn, the gleaming Weisshorn and in the distance the whole army of peaks as far as the massif of Mont Blanc. To Edward their beauty was like a healing touch and although he did travel widely in Switzerland he never found a place to equal Montana and Crans.
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he mantle of “talented amateur” is often used to describe artists who for whatever reason have not made selling their paintings their only means of financial survival. Lord Pearce of Sweethaws was a distinguished Law Lord, Lord Justice of Appeals and a privy councillor, whose talent as an artist was recognised from an early age but is only now being shown to a wider audience. This, our second exhibition focuses on the artist’s passion for the mountains. Pearce, a Law Lord, painter and collector was the son -in -law of the celebrated artist Bertram Priestman and friend and travelling companion of Edward Seago (1910 -1974). Their frequent trips as the painting trio, travelling in Seago’s Austin Seven, were a period of great productivity for the young Pearce and inspired him in the true tradition of ‘en plein air’ painting. PREVIOUS
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Lauterbrunnen 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘57 Inscribed verso £975
Untitled 16 x 20 in Oil on canvas Signed £2,200
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From the Eurotel, Villars 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed and dated Jan ‘81 verso £1,200
The Eiger and Munch from Mürren 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘70 Inscribed verso £1,100 NEXT
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Arosa 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘71 Inscribed ‘To Lily’ Inscribed verso £1,100
Aiguilles Rouges from slopes of Crans 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed verso £1,500 NEXT
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Evening at Celerina 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘73 Inscribed verso £1,200
Rhapsody in Blue, Italy 20.2 x 24.2 in Oil on canvas Signed Inscribed verso £2,500 NEXT
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Grand Combin from Carrefour, Verbier 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘82 Inscribed verso £950
Above Lauterbrunnen 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘75 Inscribed verso £950 NEXT
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Jungfrau 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed verso £1,000
Monte Leone from Simplon 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘53 Inscribed verso £950 NEXT
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Dents du Midi from Lake Geneva 20 x 24 in Oil on board £2,500
Weisshorn from Crans 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘73 Inscribed verso £1,200 NEXT
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Across the Rhone to the Valais Alps, Montana Christmas 1932 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed ‘E.H.P.’ and dated 1932 Inscribed verso £950
Dawn on Jungfrau 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘75 Inscribed verso £1,000 NEXT
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Wetterhorn 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘54 Inscribed verso £950
Mount Callandra in the Grisons 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘75 Inscribed verso £1,000 NEXT
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Eiger and Mönch, Mürren 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘70 Inscribed verso £900
Föhn – Piz Muraigh / Celerina 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘51 Inscribed verso £900 NEXT
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Grand Combin from Verbier 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed and dated ‘58 verso £900 PREVIOUS
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Verbier 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘82 Inscribed verso £900 NEXT
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From Gstaad 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed and dated ‘45 verso £950
Untitled 16 x 20 in Oil on canvas Signed £1,500
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Grand Combin from Vevey 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed and dated Sept 2nd 1951 verso £1,200
Pontresina 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘64 Inscribed verso £950 NEXT
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Dent Blanche from Evolène 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed and dated ‘58 verso £900
Ilhorn from Crans 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘72 Inscribed verso £900 NEXT
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Schwartzberg from Wengen 10 x 14 in Oil on board Inscribed and signed verso £1,000
Monte Rosa from Gornergrat 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed verso £1,100 NEXT
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Verbier 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘82 Inscribed verso £1,100
Grand Combin from Vevey 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed and dated Sept 4, 1951 verso £1,200 NEXT
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Wetterhorn 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed verso £900
Eiger, Mürren 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘70 Inscribed verso £1,100 NEXT
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Black Mönch in snow storm 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘70 Inscribed verso £900
Zermatt 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed verso £1,100 NEXT
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Morning, Mürren 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘70 Inscribed verso £950
Untitled 20 x 24 in Oil on board £1,800
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Jungfrau and Silberhorn 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed and dated ‘57 verso £1,100
Clouds over Zermatt 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed verso £1,100 NEXT
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Verbier 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘82 Inscribed verso £1,300
Lac de la Bretaye above Villars 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘81 Inscribed and dated Jan ‘81 verso £1,300 NEXT
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Besso from Zurich 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed and dated August 12 1958 verso £900
Lauterbrunnen from Wengen 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed and dated ‘57 verso £1,100 NEXT
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Sun on the Weisshorn from Montana 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed verso £1,000
Verbier 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘82 Inscribed verso £1,300 NEXT
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Weisshorn from Crans 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed and dated ‘51 Inscribed verso £1,200
Monte Leone and the Simplon Kulm from Crans 10 x 14 in Oil on board Signed Inscribed verso £1,200 NEXT
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15 Langton Street, Chelsea, London SW10 0JL E: james@jhba.co.uk W: jamesharveybritishart.com T: +44 (0)20 7 352 0015
Matterhorn 20 x 24 in Oil on board Signed ÂŁ1,500
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