Lot 407: ROBERT OSWALD MOSER 1874-1953

SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS)
signed and dated l.r.: OSWALD/ MOSER/ 1903; signed again l.r.: Moser 1903

71 by 71 cm., 28 by 28 in.

oil and pencil on board, circular

Paris, A. Guinchard

Oswald Moser did not embark on an artistic career until later in life, therefore his ouevre is not large and works by him do not often come onto the auction market. After a period of study at the St John's Wood Art School, Moser wholeheartedly devoted himself to painting and exhibited extensively, primarily at the Royal Institution, but also at the Royal Academy, The Royal Society of Artists and the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts. In 1922 Moser won a silver medal at the Paris Salon. He also exhibited in Scotland, at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Art and his picture Girl in Red was bought by the corportation of that city for their public gallery.

The subject of a beautiful young lady in a sunlit garden recalls the work of Edmund Blair Leighton and George Dunlop Leslie, whilst the treatment of wistful reverie and subtle colour scheme, are closer to those of William Henry Margetson who often painted single female figures in tondo compositions.