A signed watercolour by Ernest Yarrow-Jones depicting a richly layered woodland-edge landscape. The composition is built from dense foliage, flowering plants and sunlit scrub, with broken washes and varied colour creating depth and atmosphere.
Details
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Artist: Ernest Yarrow-Jones (1872-1951)
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Title: Au bord de la forêt
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Medium: Watercolour on paper
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Signature: Signed lower right
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Artwork size: 21 × 28 cm (8.3 × 11.0 in), height × width
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Framed size: 36 × 43 cm (14.2 × 16.9 in), height × width
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Presentation: Framed and mounted
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Provenance: Acquired from a family descendant.
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Condition: Artwork in very good vintage condition, with some signs of paper discolouration commensurate with age. Frames and mounts in very good condition.
Subject and Context
Au bord de la forêt translates as “At the edge of the forest”. The watercolour concentrates on the meeting point between scrub, flowering vegetation and denser woodland. As this work was originally catalogued alongside Le Cap, Amandier and Paysage, it was likely painted during the same French journey, probably in the Cassis area.
About the Artist
Ernest Yarrow-Jones (1872-1951) was a British painter, sculptor and illustrator. Born in Liverpool, he was educated at Liverpool College and Pembroke College, Oxford, before being called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. He subsequently turned from law to art, studying at the Westminster School of Art and Royal College of Art, followed by further training in Paris at the Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy and in Paris at the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants, and held solo exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries, Arlington Gallery and Macrae Gallery. He lived and worked for many years at Black Gable, Hythe, Kent, and also spent extended periods in Paris and travelled extensively in France and the Mediterranean.
His work is represented in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
