SOLD


Gerald Gardiner:
The Artist’s Wife, Evelyn, Knitting on a Daybed, 1934
Framed (ref: 567)
Inscribed on label on reverse: ‘This picture is the property of Mrs Evelyn Gardiner’; dated on canvas return: ‘15th April ’34’
Oil on canvas

Tags: Gerald Gardiner oil interiors women 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

Provenance: Evelyn Gardiner, Dorset; private collection, Gloucestershire; private collection, East Yorkshire; private collection, North Yorkshire

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.135.

These two paintings, which remained with the artist and his wife throughout

their lives, are somewhere between genre paintings and portraits. The setting

for both is the artist’s home Lower Nash End, Bisley in Gloucestershire, where the Gardiners moved in 1934, the year of the Daybed painting. While remaining a purely figurative painter, Gardiner delighted in applying thick impasto, often in pure colours, and had a remarkable ability to capture, in abstract gestures, both natural and artificial light, and the play of reflected light and shadows.