Lot 107: A Farm 45.7 x 50.8 cm. (18 x 20 in.)

A Farm signed 'S.F.GORE' (lower right) oil on canvas 45.7 x 50.8 cm. (18 x 20 in.) Painted in 1907

45.7 x 50.8 cm

London, Carfax Gallery, 1916 (cat.no.22) London, The Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by Spencer Frederick Gore, April 1928, cat.no.40

Lord William Percy, by whom acquired from the 1928 exhibition Thence by descent to the present owner Private Collection, U.K.

Between 1907 and 1909 Mrs Swinton (see lot 21 for a note on Mrs Swinton) bought four landscapes by Gore. In 1909 she also commissioned Gore to give drawing lessons to her daughter Mary. The present painting remained in Gore's studio after his premature death from pneumonia in March 1914 and was included in the memorial exhibition held at the Carfax Gallery in 1916 (no.22) where it was catalogued simply as A Farm 1907. It was unsold and reappeared at the Leicester Galleries in 1928 where Lord William Percy bought it as a present for his wife, the former Mary Swinton. A Farm is no.67 in the notebook compiled by Harold Gilman and the widowed Mrs Gore which lists and numbers, in chronological order, all the paintings left in Gore's studio. It is flanked on either side by landscapes of Yorkshire where Gore spent the summer of 1907 painting alongside his Fitzroy Street Group colleagues, Albert Rothenstein and Walter Russell. The assumption must be that this too is a Yorkshire view but where is not known. We are grateful to Dr. Wendy Baron for compiling this catalogue entry.