Les Champs Elyses, Paris

The artist recalled, 'For my part I was fascinated by the sunlight and shadow of those crowded walks beneath the chestnut trees, by the ever moving colourful pattern of men, women and children, dogs and perambulators, and the stream of smart limousines and yellow taxi-cabs which roared up the broad thoroughfare' (see E. Seago, With Capricorn to Paris, London, 1956, pp.89-90).