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Description: SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS)
signed and dated Emile Claus / Londen 18 l.r.

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Medium: oil on canvas

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Dimensions: 50.7 by 40.6 cm., 20 by 16 in.

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Provenance: PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR

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Notes: Painted in 1918.

This view of Waterloo Bridge is very characteristic of Emile Claus's London views, when he took refuge in the city during World War I. During this time he painted many views of the Thames and the Embankment at different times of the day. Like Monet, whom he had met in Paris in the late 1880s, Claus abandoned academic naturalism in favour of plein air painting and his work became preoccupied with the rendering of atmosphere and light (see lot 344). In the present work Claus captures the effects of the sun rise through the famous London smog, the 'pea souper', from his position above Victoria Embankment. This painting may be compared to Waterloo Bridge in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.