
Carel Weight RA
I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart, 1978
oil on board
71 x 91.5 cm; 28 x 36 in
JC80
©Carel Weight. All Rights Reserved 2024/Bridgeman Images
Provenance
Jenifer Wyatt.with Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 20 June 1995, lot 141.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 23 June 1999, lot 73, where purchased.
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1978, no. 491.London, Royal Academy, Carel Weight R.A., January - February 1982, no. 90: this exhibition toured with the Arts Council to: York, City Art Gallery, February – April 1982; Rochdale, Art Gallery, April – May 1982; Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery, May – June 1982; and Folkestone, New Metropole Arts Centre, July – August 1982.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: Revealed, February - April 2014.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, The Painter Behind the Canvas, May - October 2016.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, October 2016 - January 2017
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, A Curator's Choice, May - August 2021.
London, Kingsgate Project Space, The Return, November - December 2022.
Norwich, Norwich Castle & Art Gallery, JMW Turner and changing visions of landscape, October 2024 - February 2025, no. 69.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Carel Weight R.A., London, Royal Academy, 1982, pp. 24, 65.Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 35.