Interior; A Sculptor's Studio

Details

Malcolm Drummond (1880-1945)
Interior; A Sculptor's Studio
signed 'Drummond.' (lower right), signed again and inscribed 'Drummond. 19 Fitzroy Street' (on the canvas-overlap)
oil on canvas
21¼ x 22½ in. (54 x 57.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1910

Literature

Sunday Times, 17 July 1910.
W. Baron, The Camden Town Group, London, 1979, pp. 28, 158 and 196, illustrated pl. 63.
W. Baron, Perfect Moderns A History of the Camden Town Group, Aldershot, 2000, pp. 40 and 81, note 90.

Exhibited

London, Allied Artists' Association, 1910, no. 34.
Norwich, Castle Museum, A Terrific Thing, 1976, ex-catalogue.
London, Christie's, The Painters of Camden Town 1905-1920, January 1988, no. 57, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Drummond shows the sculptor Mervyn Lawrence at work in his studio at 1 St Leonard's Studios, Chelsea. Born in Dublin in 1868 Lawrence moved to London and studied at the Royal College of Art. He went on to exhibit at the Royal Academy, was Vice President of the South London Group and Deputy Headmaster of Westminster School of Art.

When this painting was exhibited at the Allied Artist's Association in 1910 it was praised by the Sunday Times art critic, Frank Rutter who wrote that it would 'be raved about a few years hence if his [Drummond's] name becomes widely known'.

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