Can anyone decipher this signature?

This watercolor had a "look", I thought. All I can make out is "Westbank 1982." Can't make out the signature. There is a resort called Westbank in Canada, although he could be referring to the West Bank in Israel. No i dea. Would appreciate others taking a look.

 

Really like this - if that background represents a city shoreline, I like it even more.

edit: I see now it's a reflection, as it moves up and down with the round spot, but it still looks like a faded natural shoreline.

But the signature... Have you tried artinfo? you can try letters and wild cards to decipher possible names. You might try a loop and different angles to see strokes - it's too flat to see on screen.

Artinfo

 

It's funny, I'm seeing Westbrook

 

P. Cerofil???

 

Hi,
I'm seeing Westbrook also.
greg

 

Make that 3 votes for Westbrook.

 

Thanks to everyone. There is a Westbrook beach in CT. I bet this is it. Wish I knew who the artist was though!

 

Taking a shot... agree with Brad... "P", and then the first two letters are pretty surely "Ce"... not sure after that!
It is wonderful. Just the right amount of detail against the impressionistic background. That cheap beach-chair and sunglasses really are charming. I guess the steps on the right lead to his house. He's reading the morning paper, maybe. I love it.

 

Fooled you, Westbrook is location. Below that is the sig.

I know Westbrook, CT very well. Not even close. Those do look like buildings on the other shore, boats and islands? on the water.

Brad has a better idea than I can come up with.

What's on his lap? 82 is a bit early for laptops. His left hand looks deformed or replaced with a garden tool.

 

I thought it might be a self-portrait. Looks like he might be sketching.

 

Steps?? On the right????

You did give me another perspective, though. It could very well be a small private spot. Not a beach, nothing more than a little spot for a chair. Again, across the water is a city with large residential and commercial buildings.

 

Brad, that was a thought way back, but discarded. Do artists do self portraits without a mirror, from memory?

 

Steps on HIS right...
There's no predicting how an artist does a self-portrait. Some do it off the cuff from memory. I have.
I have no trouble seeing the thing in his lap as a newspaper, one hand scanning or pointing or smoothing the paper...

 

My apologies, Gila. I was looking at the closeups only. That's his "patio." And that puts him higher than before. No beach, like tons of waterfront properties, maybe just a dock. No sand, just rocks.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... okay, I get that now. Thanks!

 

The white spot in the sky... it's a moon if the scene is landscape, and a clock-tower if it's a city... for me, anyway. I think there are too many un-natural angles for it to be a landscape.

 

OldGuy - There is no "city" across the water. If you click on the picture jollyrancher attached in his post #2, you will see that is only the reflection of the room behind jolly, complete with window frame, bookcase and jolly and his camera.

 

OMG... how embarrassing. Thanks, Abuela.

 

Look again I thought the same, but they are much lower on the close shot at the top, then shift up, so looks like they are reflections.

Geographically, there there are islands out from Westbook beach, or thereabouts... that would explain the submarine-like lump out there

Maybe he's a plein air artist and this is a study by another friendly artist?