Featured Arthur Beaumont Watercolor and hello everyone!

Well, I'm wrong in thinking those were preparatory works as artist felt they were finished and saleable.

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This is more finished.

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That is actually very valuable information. I haven’t thought of that.

 

Well, this helps...

"In the mid-1960s, All Figure Numbers (AFNs) were introduced in London and five other large cities because the number of meaningful letter combinations was becoming exhausted."

So the artist's telephone number supports the visual dating of the two works with human figures.

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the father son relationship question may be key here.

 

Don't want to overstate the obvious here but...

These are not the work of the same artist.

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I don't know how they could keep track of Arthur Beaumont. There is another artist, Arthur James Beaumont that painted a variety of things including boats on the water. I know this one is not him because Arthur James 1879 - 1956. The problem is they both signed Arthur Beaumont. Now another A Beaumont?

 

It's not that uncommon a name. "Our" Arthur Beaumont was living in a block of flats in north London in the mid-1960s.

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I suspect a tourist painting. Whoever did it has a developed style. There no hesitancy in the sketching or the laying-down of colors. If there's only one A. Beaumont, painter, to be found online, that's who people will attribute the work to. There are reams of artists in a broad range of talent who are not to be found anywhere online.

I suspect the back is a discarded start. Interesting in that it shows how the artist approached his/her subject. Given the multiple legs on the middle figure, it was either give up the sketch or go the futurist route

 

Hum... Dunno re tourist painting. £35 in the mid-60s was a fair amount of money. And Hampstead wasn't exactly teeming with tourists. But, certainly, artist was selling his work.

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