Signed and dated l.l.: Margaret Gere/1948

Watercolour, bodycolour and pencil, 43 by 35cm (16¾ by 13¾ in)

Provenance: The Fine Art Society, London The Fortunoff Collection [7931]

Exhibited: Cheltenham, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museums, Margaret Gere Exhibition, 21 January -3 March 1984, cat. no. D.

Gere studied under her brother Charles March Gere at Birmingham School of Art and much of her earlier work is influenced by him. Like her brother she was also a fine painter in tempera. She continued her studies at the Slade and was later a member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Birmingham School of Art. This charming evocation of Paddington station has something of a stage-set quality, perhaps reflecting films of the later 1940s, in particular Brief Encounter that had been made a couple of years earlier.