Lay’s to offer Alfred Wallis painting owned by potter Bernard Leach
Painted with a scene of two St Ives double-ended mackerel luggers heeling to an offshore breeze, this Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) picture has what Mimi Connell-Lay calls “an absolute dream of a provenance”.
It comes for sale at Lay’s Cornish Art Sale in Penzance on July 9-10 from the grandson of the potter…