Signed and dated (in Roman numerals) l.r.: Harald Sund/MCMXIII (1913)

Tempera on canvas, 52 by 61 cm

Exhibited: Brighton Art Gallery, Exhibition by the Camden Town Group and others, December 1913-January 1914, no.25

Sund and his wife Renée Finch began exhibiting with the Camden Town Group towards the end of 1913 just prior to its merger to form the London Group. His name first appears as an exhibitor at the Doré Galleries in October of that year in a show curated by the influential critic Frank Rutter. The exhibition also contained work by painters who had been influenced by the Futurist style, amongst them important early pictures by Nevinson. Sund was subsequently present at the meeting in November 1913 which resulted in the formation of the London Group, of which he was consequently a founder member. Despite Sund’s place in the heart of the London art scene at this date, his work as a painter is extremely rare and is hardly ever seen on the open market. This strongly colourful and decorative landscape of his native Norway betrays influence of both Norwegian art and the progressive approach to colour so evident in the Camden Town Group. It was exhibited at the well-known Brighton exhibition of Camden Town paintings that would be seen to herald the new London Group. On returning to Norway Sund came to be regarded as one of the country's foremost church architects.