Naked Lunch reserved A nice gentle period portrait

A nice gentle period portrait painted in 1946 of a young Swedish woman with a kind face and everything to look forward to

apart from the fashion of the sitter this would be impossible to date next to his work from the 1930s onwards

He clearly enjoyed poking fun at authority figures

it is handled with Spurriers usual sensitivity and deft draughtsmanship

I admire her artistic integrity and evolution

Naked Lunch reserved A nice gentle period portraitIn thirty years, weve not owned or exhibited a David Remfry painting and this is the second weve bought in twelve months. His work will be very familiar to those regular visitors to the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, as an elected Academician he can submit up to six works, confident that they will be hung (at least somewhere). His large, loose, figurative watercolours of dancers are instantly recognisable and have an international following.