Catalog summary
Maud Sumner Maud Sumner, South African/British 1902-1985 - Sunset; oil on canvas, signed lower right 'Sumner' and further inscribed on the reverse, 27 x 36 cm (ARR) Note: the artist lived between her native South Africa and London and Paris, exhibiting internationally since the 1930s. Exhibitions of note were at the Mayor Gallery in 1935 and the Leicester Galleries. She was particularly influenced by the Nabis and her teacher Maurice Denis and a similarly ethereal landscapes are now in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford ('Land of Light' and 'Misty Evening').