Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Spencer Gore (1878-1914)
A tree-lined lane, Hertingfordbury
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 60.8cm

Provenance:
By family descent from the artist to the present owner

"In his painting was made manifest colour, and not merely colours...He attained to exquisiteness in touch. Expression descended like snowflakes on his canvases, varied, adequate, and economical."
- Walter Sickert discussing Spencer Gore

Spencer Gore was a founder member of the Fitzroy Group in 1907, of the Camden Town Group in 1911 (of which he was the first President), and of the London Group in 1913. His influence on British painting in this period was considerable, not least on the work of his close friend Walter Sickert who said 'it is my practice that was transformed from 1905 by the example of the development of Gore’s talent'. Gore looked to the new artistic innovations in France, particularly the work of Cézanne and Derain, and assimilated them into his own work. In 1914 Gore died of pneumonia aged only 35, leaving a hugely significant artistic legacy.