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Edward Holroyd Pearce (1901–1990)
Mountain SplendourAN EXHIBITION OF ALPINE VIEWS
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 – 12pmEvenings 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
Lord 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.
The 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.
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Untitled16 x 20 in
Oil on canvasSigned£2,200
Lauterbrunnen10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘57
Inscribed verso£975
9 10
From the Eurotel, Villars10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed and dated Jan ‘81 verso£1,200
The Eiger and Munch from Mürren10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘70
Inscribed verso£1,100
11 12
Arosa10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘71
Inscribed ‘To Lily’Inscribed verso
£1,100
Aiguilles Rouges from slopes of Crans10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed verso£1,500
13 14
Evening at Celerina10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘73
Inscribed verso £1,200
Rhapsody in Blue, Italy20.2 x 24.2 inOil on canvas
SignedInscribed verso
£2,500
15 16
Grand Combin from Carrefour, Verbier10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘82
Inscribed verso £950
Above Lauterbrunnen 10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘75
Inscribed verso £950
17 18
Jungfrau10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed verso£1,000
Monte Leone from Simplon10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘53
Inscribed verso£950
19 20
Dents du Midi from Lake Geneva20 x 24 in
Oil on board£2,500
Weisshorn from Crans10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘73
Inscribed verso£1,200
21 22
Across the Rhone to the Valais Alps, Montana Christmas 1932
10 x 14 inOil on board
Signed ‘E.H.P.’ and dated 1932Inscribed verso
£950
Dawn on Jungfrau10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘75
Inscribed verso£1,000
23 24
Wetterhorn10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘54
Inscribed verso£950
Mount Callandra in the Grisons10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘75
Inscribed verso£1,000
25 26
Eiger and Mönch, Mürren10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘70
Inscribed verso£900
Föhn – Piz Muraigh / Celerina10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘51
Inscribed verso£900
27 28
Grand Combin from Verbier10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed and dated ‘58 verso£900
Verbier10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘82
Inscribed verso£900
29 30
From Gstaad10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed and dated ‘45 verso£950
Untitled16 x 20 in
Oil on canvasSigned£1,500
31 32
Grand Combin from Vevey10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed and dated Sept 2nd 1951 verso£1,200
Pontresina10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘64
Inscribed verso£950
33 34
Dent Blanche from Evolène10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed and dated ‘58 verso£900
Ilhorn from Crans10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘72
Inscribed verso£900
35 36
Schwartzberg from Wengen10 x 14 in
Oil on boardInscribed and signed verso
£1,000
Monte Rosa from Gornergrat10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed verso£1,100
37 38
Verbier10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘82
Inscribed verso£1,100
Grand Combin from Vevey10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed and dated Sept 4, 1951 verso £1,200
39 40
Wetterhorn10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed verso£900
Eiger, Mürren10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘70
Inscribed verso £1,100
41 42
Black Mönch in snow storm10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘70
Inscribed verso£900
Zermatt10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed verso£1,100
43 44
Morning, Mürren10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘70
Inscribed verso£950
Untitled20 x 24 in
Oil on board£1,800
45 46
Jungfrau and Silberhorn10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed and dated ‘57 verso£1,100
Clouds over Zermatt10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed verso£1,100
47 48
Verbier10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘82
Inscribed verso£1,300
Lac de la Bretaye above Villars10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘81
Inscribed and dated Jan ‘81 verso £1,300
49 50
Besso from Zurich10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed and dated August 12 1958 verso
£900
Lauterbrunnen from Wengen10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed and dated ‘57 verso £1,100
51 52
Sun on the Weisshorn from Montana10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed verso£1,000
Verbier10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘82
Inscribed verso£1,300
53 54
Weisshorn from Crans10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned and dated ‘51
Inscribed verso£1,200
Monte Leone and the Simplon Kulm from Crans10 x 14 in
Oil on boardSigned
Inscribed verso£1,200
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For more information, please contact:
15 Langton Street, Chelsea, London SW10 0JLE: james@jhba.co.uk
W: jamesharveybritishart.comT: +44 (0)20 7 352 0015
Matterhorn20 x 24 in
Oil on boardSigned£1,500