Lot 55: Violet Brunton (British, 1878-1951) The audience

The audience
signed with monogram and bears inscription (on original frame) 'And so this life be but a play - a part that each man acts, then sure some sit and watch, an audience to that play, could such a play be set without an audience?'
watercolour heightened with bodycolour
15.5 x 14.5cm (6 1/8 x 5 11/16in).
within original carved frame

Provenance:
Sotheby's Belgravia, April 27th 1982, lot 323.