British Post-Impressionism
SOLDCharles Pears (1873-1958):
At Middleburg:The Kermis, August, 1913
Framed (ref: 1372)
Inscribed: full page in Punch on reverse
Oil on card, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. (29 x 25 cm).
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This painting is reproduced as the frontispiece of Pears 1914 book From the Thames to the Netherlands where it is entitled At Middleburg: The Kermis. The picture records the annual Kermis, (religious festival ) with festivities in the foreground and the City Hall visible in the background.
We are grateful to Richard Joynson for providing this information.
Although the Netherlands remained neutral throughout the 1914-18 war this colourful image of the annual August festivities in Middleburg (capital of the province of Zeeland) has an eerie silence, the entranced crowd bearing witness to gaiety that within a year would be swept away by the cataclystism of WW1.
We are grateful to Richard Joynson for providing this information.
