Pencil with red crayon, 18 by 28 cm (7 by 11 ins)

Provenance: Sir Lawrence Gowing, directly from the artist

Lawrence Gowing who owned the present drawing was a close friend and disciple of Coldstream who he had studied under at the Euston Road School. Gowing co-wrote the 1990 Tate publication on Coldstream’s paintings in which he referred to receiving a number of drawings from Coldstream on a visit to his studio. This included the present work and a portrait sketch of Gowing himself. This interesting drawing shows something of the artist’s fastidious working process and the strong sense of structure that underlines his larger paintings.