Lot Essay
Wendy Baron considers that from 1910, London landscapes became increasingly popular to the painters of the Camden Town Group. Gore had painted some street scenes before this date but he now began to paint more extensive London views. In 1909 he had moved to 31 Mornington Crescent and it was from here and from No.6, Sickert's studio, that the majority of his views of Mornington Crescent were painted. Frederick Gore, the artist's son, believes that somewhere in the region of forty views of Mornington Crescent exist
Usually Gore went to the country but in 1911 he spent the whole summer in London and Sickert allowed him to use the empty rooms of the Rowlandson House school, where he taught a childrens' class, to paint from as well. Sickert later remarked on that summer in 'A Perfect Modern' a tribute to Gore on his untimely death in 1914: 'there was a few years ago a month of June which Gore verily seems to have used as if he had known that it was to be for him the last of its particularly fresh and sumptuous kind. He used to look down on the garden of Mornington Cresent. The trained trees rise and droop in fringes, like fountains, over the little well of greenness and shadow where parties of young people are playing tennis. The backcloth is formed by the tops of the brown houses of the Hampstead Road, and the liver coloured tiles of the Tube Station'
(See W. Baron, The Camden Town Group, London, 1979, p.p.26, 27, 239)
John Quinn, was a collector from New York who amassed a large collection of British and French paintings. He purchased four paintings from Gore, the present work and 'The Avenue', a view of Mornington Cresent Gardens from circa 1910, 'Frosty Morning', and 'A Garden Square in Camden Town' (F. Watson, Op. Cit, p.17)
Usually Gore went to the country but in 1911 he spent the whole summer in London and Sickert allowed him to use the empty rooms of the Rowlandson House school, where he taught a childrens' class, to paint from as well. Sickert later remarked on that summer in 'A Perfect Modern' a tribute to Gore on his untimely death in 1914: 'there was a few years ago a month of June which Gore verily seems to have used as if he had known that it was to be for him the last of its particularly fresh and sumptuous kind. He used to look down on the garden of Mornington Cresent. The trained trees rise and droop in fringes, like fountains, over the little well of greenness and shadow where parties of young people are playing tennis. The backcloth is formed by the tops of the brown houses of the Hampstead Road, and the liver coloured tiles of the Tube Station'
(See W. Baron, The Camden Town Group, London, 1979, p.p.26, 27, 239)
John Quinn, was a collector from New York who amassed a large collection of British and French paintings. He purchased four paintings from Gore, the present work and 'The Avenue', a view of Mornington Cresent Gardens from circa 1910, 'Frosty Morning', and 'A Garden Square in Camden Town' (F. Watson, Op. Cit, p.17)