Signed and dated l.l.: W.Thomson/1970

Oil on canvas, 100 by 109.5 cm

Provenance: a gift from the artist to the previous owner

Thomson was a scholar at the Royal College of Art where he studied under Rodrigo Moynihan, Carel Weight and John Minton. Female nudes on this large scale are perhaps the types of work for which he is best known. Thomson's work was acknowledged by the art critic, Clement Greenberg, who, when asked if he knew of "any figurative painting today which is large scale and which sustains itself?" responded, "Lucian Freud… Peter Blake and William Thomson - especially Thomson, who should be better known."