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Lot Essay
Dora Carrington invited her husband Ralph Partridge's best friend, the writer, Gerald Brenan on a holiday to Cumberland in August 1921.
After this holiday they embarked upon an affair. The menage trois with Ralph and Lytton Strachey was jeopardised by this relationship and subsequent enforced separations eventually led to the end of the affair. Gerald Brenan remained very fond of Carrington and kept a lock of her hair and the green dress that she had worn during the stay at Watendlath until he died.
On the holiday Carrington painted two pictures of the farm: a view of the mass of moorlands behind the white farmhouse, now in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London; and the present work which also includes the stone-walled field and three benign sheep in the foreground.
(see J. Hill, loc. cit.).
After this holiday they embarked upon an affair. The menage trois with Ralph and Lytton Strachey was jeopardised by this relationship and subsequent enforced separations eventually led to the end of the affair. Gerald Brenan remained very fond of Carrington and kept a lock of her hair and the green dress that she had worn during the stay at Watendlath until he died.
On the holiday Carrington painted two pictures of the farm: a view of the mass of moorlands behind the white farmhouse, now in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London; and the present work which also includes the stone-walled field and three benign sheep in the foreground.
(see J. Hill, loc. cit.).