
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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Provenance
The Artist, thence by family descent
Private Collection, Canada
Exhibited
Canada, Regina, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina Collects, 7 September-21 October 1984, cat.no.33
The present work is thought to have been painted in the garden of the Hotel Cendrillon, Cassis. Roger Fry 'discovered' Cassis, the small port east of Toulon on the Mediterranean coast, in 1925 and painted there on several occasions. He stayed at the Hôtel Cendrillon, a modest, comfortable establishment in the town where, in a visit in spring 1925, Virginia Woolf found 'complete happiness'. Another Cassis painting from this year is in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.