Lot 128: George Edward Marston (British, 1882-1940) Antarctic penguins unframed

George Edward Marston
Antarctic penguins
signed and dated 'G.MARSTON/1908' (lower left)
oil on canvas laid to board
26 x 36.2cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/4in).
unframed

Footnotes

• Provenance
  Sydney Marston, the artist's brother.
  Sidney Herbert of Dorset (gifted from the above).
  Thence by descent to the current owner.
  
  George Marston twice accompanied Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic as the official expedition artist. Given the date of the work, Marston would have been on the Nimrod Expedition, which took place between 1907 and 1909.