Marrakech after Seago

£495.00

Around the same time I pointed the large oil painting The Wells of Marrakech after Edward Seago, I painted two smaller oils after Seago. This was the first one, a 10″ x 8″ based on a much larger oil by Edward Seago painted, most probably in the 1960’s.

I also painted a second one the same size but with more detail, The Walls of Marrakech.

It’s an incredibly simple composition in so many ways. The sky colour merges into the shadows on the walls. The foreground figure provides both scale and a focal point. There’s also a tremendous sense of space because of the broad foreground.

The Walls of Marrakech after Seago
The Walls of Marrakech after Seago Framed

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Dimensions 25 × 20 cm
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Queen Elizabeth

Whether it was his watercolours of Norfolk or his oils of Marrakech, his popularity was such that those who wished to buy one of his paintings had to queue (with the single exception of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) at his various annual exhibitions around the world.

“The Queen Mother bought so many that eventually the artist, who died in 1974, gave her two a year – on her birthday and at Christmas. Prince Philip invited him on a tour of the Antarctic in 1956, and his subsequent paintings, considered to be among his best, hang at Balmoral.

Norwich Studio

Seago died of a brain tumour in London on 19 January 1974. In his will he requested that one-third of his paintings currently in his Norwich studio were to be destroyed. There remain about 19,000 water colours and 300 oil paintings worldwide. A major retrospective of his work was held in autumn 2008 in London, as was a Sky Arts 2 television series about Seago fronted by Selina Scott.

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