Not on display
- Artist
- Spencer Gore 1878–1914
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 635 × 760 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by J.W. Freshfield 1955
- Reference
- T00028
Display caption
Spencer Gore was drawn to scenes of everyday life in London. Here he shows the fig tree which grew in the garden next to his upstairs flat at Houghton Place, just off Mornington Crescent.
Gore often painted the view through the windows of houses where he lived. He produced a sequence of views of this tree in different seasons, perhaps inspired by Claude Monet’s series of paintings of haystacks, or Rouen Cathedral, under different lighting conditions.
Gallery label, September 2004
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