Notes

Although the details are sketchy, the house depicted in this scene is Eathorpe Park, the Warwickshire home of Sumner’s father’s family. When Sumner was a student at Oxford in the 1920s, her grandmother and aunts still lived in the house, and Sumner visited and spent vacations there regularly, then and later. The house was eventually sold in the 1950s after the death of the last-surviving aunt.¹
1. Frieda Harmsen (1992) Maud Sumner: Painter and Poet, Pretoria: Van Schaik, page 15.

Provenance

Strauss & Co, 7 November 2011, lot 49.

Private Collection.