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Artist or Maker: Harold Gilman (1876-1919)

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Description: Study for Halifax Harbour, Dredger with Derrick
with studio stamp (lower right, underneath the mount) and variously inscribed
pencil, watercolour and ink, squared for transfer
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm.)
Executed in 1918.

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Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 March 1971, lot 32.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 March 1986, lot 221, where purchased by Erich Sommer.

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Exhibited: London, Reid Gallery, Harold Gilman 1876-1919, 1964, no.88.
London, Arts Council, Harold Gilman 1876-1919, October 1981-April 1982, no.104, illustrated; this exhibition toured to Stoke-on-Trent, City Museum and Art Gallery; York, City Art Gallery; Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery; and London, The Royal Academy.

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Notes: The present work is a study for the large painting Halifax Harbour (77 x 132 in. coll. National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa) which was commissioned from Gilman by the Canadian War Records in 1918. The painting was to commemorate a catastrophe on 6 December 1917 when a French munitions ship 'Mont Blanc' blew up in the harbour with a cargo of 2,300 tons of picric acid, 10 tons of guncotton and 200 tons of TNT, killing hundreds outright and devasting the district of Richmond. The dredger is placed in the centre of the painting near the harbour buildings in the foreground.

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