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Lot description
JAMES DICKSON INNES (WELSH 1887-1914) BOZOULS, FRANCE signed and dated J D Innes '09 lower right; pen and sepia wash on paper; 32 x 50cm; 12 1/2 x 19 3/4in (53 x 70cm; 20 3/4 x 27 1/2in framed) Provenance: Lady Beatrice Thynne; Major P.E.C. Harris (1948); Thomas Agnew & Sons, London; Entwistle, London Executed in Bozouls in the Occitanie to the north west of Montpellier in France on one of Innes' regular excursions south. As Innes describes, Bozouls sits on the edge of an impressive canyon carved out of the rock over millenia by the river Dordou de Conques that snakes around the church of Saint Fauste. Born in Wales, Innes was educated at Christ College, Brecon and then Camarthen School of Art from where he was awarded a scholarship to the Slade, London. Diagnosed with consumption, he sought out drier, warmer climes. Between 1908 and 1913 he spent time in Collioure and Spain with Derwent Lees and in Marseille with fellow Welshman Augustus John (see lot 152), before settling in Morocco with Trelawnay Dayrell-Reed, but found no respite for his failing health and died a year later.