Interior

Details

Harold Gilman (1876-1919)
Interior
signed 'H. Gilman' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 14 in. (51 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1912-14

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, New Year Exhibition, Jan. 1952, no.65, as 'Polish Interior'
Colchester, The Minories, Harold Gilman, March 1969, no.31: this exhibition travelled to Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, April-May, and Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, May-June

Lot Essay

This work was previously catalogued as 'Polish Interior' but Gilman never actually visited Poland; he went to Sweden in 1912 and Norway in 1913. This work is similar in composition to another 'Interior with Flowers' of circa 1911-4, in the collection of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Basil Creighton (1885-1989) was a poet and novelist and German translator whose best-known work includes a translation from Hermann Hesse's 'Steppenwolf' and Alma Mahler's 'Gustav Mahler'. He wrote eight novels and a book of poetry was published posthumously by his family
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