Signed l.l.: C.M.Gere

Watercolour and gouache, 9 by 14 ins (23 by 35.5 cm)

Provenance: with George.L.Brown, Birmingham

The present landscape probably shows the countryside near Painswick in Gloucestershire, where Gere settled in 1904 and lived for the next fifty years.  O.Hurst, writing of Gere's landscape work in The Studio as early as 1913, noted "the characteristic of the English scenes in his art is a lyrical spirit". That spirit is strongly evident in the present, highly expressive work, probably painted in the years following the First World War. Gere's response to the landscape here is contrastingly almost graphic, as seen in this work's dramatic sky-effects, but also touchingly lyrical in its style and observation - in this respect very much in the great English tradition of watercolour painting.