Live Auction 7856Victorian & British Impressionist Pictures Including Drawings & Watercolours
Walter Ernest Webster (1878-1959)
Lot 113

Walter Ernest Webster (1878-1959)

The Play is Ended

Closed16 June 2010

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GBP 18,750

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Walter Ernest Webster (1878-1959)
The Play is Ended
signed 'Webster' (lower right), and signed again and inscribed 'The Play is Ended/W.E. Webster/Broom Villa/Broomhouse Rd./Parsons Green/£127/SW6' (on a label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

H. Stanley Smith, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, by 6 December 1973.

Specialist note

The Play is Ended closely relates to Webster's Souvenir of Schumann's 'Carnival' (The Leverhulme Collection, Sotheby's, London, 27 June 2001, lot 459) a homage to the German composer's musical description of masked revelers. In both pictures the seated ballerina is most probably a representation of Clara Weick, the composer's future wife, while the reticent Pierrot represents the dreamier and more contemplative side of Schumann's personality.