Signed and dated l.r.: Boswell/31 and inscribed with title (verso)

Oil on panel

27.5 by 39.5 cm., 10 ¾ by 15 ½ in.

Provenance: Sal Shuel (the artist’s daughter)

London was central to the work of the painter and illustrator James Boswell. In the 1930s he would develop a distinctive style that is reminiscent of Otto Dix and George Grosz, encompassing subjects that ranged from its streets, markets and bars to public events (amongst them his vivid illustrations of the Battle of Cable Street to debates at Speaker’s Corner). In the early 1930s he lived in Fitzroy Street and executed a number of fine street scenes of his Bloomsbury neighbourhood that are influenced by the painters of the Camden Town Group, a movement which had developed from a circle artists based in the same part of London.