Studio RT Ltd

Description

We are very pleased to offer for sale this atmospheric oil on board by the artist GUDRUN SIBBONS, who has signed the painting in the lower right hand corner. The painting depicts a Dutch estuary scene, with a panoramic vista of a town in the background, and two figures in a small boat alongside a typical dutch barge, with nets hanging over the side and a figure on board. There are seagulls low over the water in the foreground and a windmill in the centre. There is other shipping on the water. This painting features one of the artist's typical dramatic skies.

This is one of a pair of paintings by this artist that we are currently listing.

GUDRUN SIBBONS was born in 1925 in Annaberg in Silesia, Germany. Her studies took her to Berlin, Breslau and Hamburg, when WWII intervened and during this period, she served as a nurse. After the war, she was working as a secretary, when she met her future husband Bill Sibbons, a professional portrait painter. They moved to London and married in 1949. She worked as a laboratory assistant, whilst painting as a hobby.

She started selling her paintings on the Hyde Park railings in the 1950s and, after selling paintings to such famous people as David Niven and Erroll Flynn, became an instant success and her paintings have attracted much interest and high prices ever since. She now lives on the south coast.

Her paintings are in oils and she specialises in landscapes and coastal scenes in the Dutch old master style, with powerful skies reminiscent of Turner.

Auction prices achieved for works by this artist may be found at artprice.com (160 listings), findartinfo.com (98), arcadja.com (76) and artnet.com (42).

The painting is framed in a 2 1/4" swept gilt frame and is ready to hang.

Medium Oils on board