Graham Murray
La Calvalcade, Ouques
, 1930
Oil on canvas
28 x 40 inches
Signed and inscribed verso
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Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Ninian Sanderson in 1979Purchased from the Estate of Ninan Sanderson by William (Billy) Skelly in 1984
Note: Oucques is a former commune in the Loir-et-Cher area of France, where every March a fancy dress parade is mounted. This work was painted from the artist's bedroom window at the Hotel Du Bon Labouveau in 1930. In 1979 Ninian Sanderson purchased La Cavalcade - Ouques from the artist.
Exhibitions
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, Annaul Exhibition, 1931Alex. Reid and Lefevre, London, Graham Murray, 1932, no.10