Watercolour, 37 by 33 cm

Kortright developed his own distinctive and highly attractive style of decorative landscape painting, in part informed by his extensive travels in Continental Europe and also from his time living in the artists’ colony at St Ives in Cornwall with the painter Norman Wilkinson. Both artists went on to work as commercial artists and poster designers. Kortright put his artistic philosophy in writing in a series of articles with the title Decorative Landscape Painting which were published in the periodical The Artist in 1934 and 1935. This painting is possibly related to (and from the same collection as) a view of Dubrovnik in our Christmas catalogue in 2021 (no.63).