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Dimensions: 49.5 by 39.5cm.; 19½ by 15½in.
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Provenance: Collection of Hugh Blaker
Earl of Sandwich
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 April 1963, lot 16, whence purchased on behalf of the present owner
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Notes: Exhibited simply as Richmond in the 1955 Arts Council exhibition, the present painting does not offer us any clues to identifying a specific location, rather it gives us a wonderfully anonymous and deliberately suburban image. Gore had moved to Cambrian Road in Richmond in the autumn of 1913 and remained there until his death the following spring and the paintings that he produced during this period do seem to show a return to a more naturalistic handling after the Letchworth paintings of the previous year. Deliberately using the tree at the centre of the composition to mask the houses beyond, we see tantalising glimpses of the sunlit backs of a row of buildings through the gaps in the leaves. Everything in the image suggests the quiet of a residential street during the day, but equally there is a suggestion of reserve. The green-painted gate in the wall remains closed, the reflection of sun on the windows makes them mirror-like and the tree breaks up every direct view. We are grateful to Dr Wendy Baron for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
