Signed l.r.: C.R.W. Nevinson

Watercolour, 35.5 by 51.5 cm. (14  by 20 ins)

Provenance: Spink & Sons; Claire and Garrick Stephenson

The present picture is a watercolour version of a painting of the same composition, Nude on a bed, South of France (sold Christie’s, London, 1st July 1993, lot 6). Although neither work is dated it may originate from a trip to the South of France made by Nevinson in 1930. The model can be confidentally identified as the artist's wife, Kathleen, who was distinguished by her distinctive short-cut, deep red, hair. She appears in a number of Nevinson's French pictures (including other nudes), often depicted in similar interiors to this one, or peering from balconies.