Spencer Frederick Gore (1878-1914)

A Music-Hall Turn, The Alhambra

Details

Spencer Frederick Gore (1878-1914)
A Music-Hall Turn, The Alhambra
pastel on blue paper
14 x 7¼in. (35.5 x 18.4cm.)
Executed in 1909

Provenance

The Artist's Estate.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1987 exhibition.

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, British Modernist Art 1905-1930, Nov. 1987-Jan. 1988, no.20 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

The Alhambra, at Leicester Square, was Gore's favourite music hall, he preferred its splendour and monumental scale to the smaller halls frequented by Sickert. This pastel is closely related to 'Inez and Taki' from 1910.

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