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Lot Essay
Like many of his contemporaries, Goodwin was a widely travelled artist, he travelled extensively in Britain and Europe, also visiting Egypt (1876), India (1895), the Caribbean and North America (1902, 1912) and New Zealand (1917).
Although not always executed from life, jungle themes frequently surface in Goodwin's work. This watercolour is likely to have been influenced by his trip to India and carries echoes of the artist's oil Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, in the Tate, London (inv. N01900). Goodwin exhibited another watercolour of the same subject at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1910 (no. 144; sold Christie's, London, 14 July 1998, lot 131).
Although not always executed from life, jungle themes frequently surface in Goodwin's work. This watercolour is likely to have been influenced by his trip to India and carries echoes of the artist's oil Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, in the Tate, London (inv. N01900). Goodwin exhibited another watercolour of the same subject at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1910 (no. 144; sold Christie's, London, 14 July 1998, lot 131).