Coloured chalks on brown paper, 20 by 23 cm

Provenance: By descent from the artist to his daughter-in-law Mrs Hugh Clausen;  Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, 30th September 192, lot 7

This striking example of Clausen’s slightly later work in pastel shows how the artist had maintained his natural facility and flare for the medium lending a more graphic structure to his approach in its execution. This drawing shows trees in his garden at Hillside in Duton Hill in Essex, a house he had acquired as a country retreat in 1917.