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Gerald Gardiner - The Artists Wife

Private Collection

Gerald Gardiner (1902 - 1959)

The Artists Wife, Evelyn, Seated Reading, mid-1930s

SKU: 566
Inscribed on label on reverse: ‘This picture is the property of Mrs Evelyn Gardiner’
Oil on canvas

Size:
Height – 71.5cm
Width – 66cm

DESCRIPTION

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

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.134.

The painting over the fireplace in this work is typical of the heightened pastel colours of Gardiner’s landscapes (see cat. 93).

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THE ARTIST

Gerald Gardiner
Gerald
Gardiner
1902 - 1959

Landscape painter in oil, and teacher. Born in London, he studied at
Beckenham School of Art, under Percy Jowett, 1919-23, then at the Royal
College of Art, 1923-7. Exhibited RA, NEAC, RSA and Cooling Galleries.
During World War if he completed wall decorations for the Cheltenham
Services Club, a year later illustrating Fred Kitchen’s book Jesse and
His Friends. Work in several public collections, including Swindon and
Bristol Art Galleries. Gardiner’s landscapes are notable for their
translucent colour. Lived in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

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