Interior with the Artist's Wife Gold Silver & Bronze Lucille stands staring directly at

Lucille stands staring directly at the camera

the condition of the frame is not ‘as new’

A bit of a wild card but a powerful painting

Even without a comical figure to point us to a punchline this little study of industrial buildings still manages to exude his humour

usually towards the grey/brown end of the spectrum

Interior with the Artist's Wife Gold Silver & Bronze Lucille stands staring directly atNot much is recorded of Whittens life other than he was an artist, educator and latterly a potter of some renown. This interior is pure Bloomsbury, a very Grant like brush and the sort of domestic scene that could well have appealed to the great man. Indeed Whitten was a devotee of Duncan Grant and a purchaser of at least one of his works, a rather nice view of pleasure boats on the Thames, from the Towner Art Gallery in the 1950s. The Grant painting