榆树公园花园

Painted in the summer of 1955. The artist wrote (27 February 1957) that the picture was painted in half a day: ‘I often take advantage of...periods of nervous tension...to paint in, for I find my tense state at such times imparts to the picture a tense and alive quality.... For a long time I had looked at the white curtained windows of my room at 63 Elm Park Gardens: the gardens without framed by the window frames and the white, holed curtains, with a table top or chair below, was a scene that demanded to be painted. I am at the moment concerned with a series on that very same visual theme.... ’ He frequently felt better able to maintain the unity of a composition over a short period of time, and this work differs from T00104 in that the latter was built up in stages over several days or even weeks. No.T.122 is painted over a very thinly executed composition, ‘Jean’, March 1955, exhibited at the ‘ Daily Express ’ Young Artists Exhibition , New Burlington Galleries, April–May 1955 (27). Traces of this composition show through on the left and middle of the picture.