Lot Essay
A label attatched to the reverse states 'Charles Ginner told me that this picture was painted from a back window in Houghton Place, Camden Town, where Gore lived for a year after his marriage in 1912. Basil Creighton, December 1969'.
Wendy Baron (loc. cit.) records that either the present work or another similar entitled 'The Fig Tree' (in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London) was exhibited at the third Camden Town exhibition in the winter of 1912. Both are views of a tree in the back garden of 1, Houghton Place, next door to the artist's home.
Wendy Baron (loc. cit.) records that either the present work or another similar entitled 'The Fig Tree' (in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London) was exhibited at the third Camden Town exhibition in the winter of 1912. Both are views of a tree in the back garden of 1, Houghton Place, next door to the artist's home.