The Music Hall (Lady with a Xylophone)

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The Music Hall was the most popular, and later sought after, painted subject by Spencer Gore.
By 1909 Gore’s favourite pastime was to visit The Alhambra in Leicester Square, the subject of this work, where he would sketch furiously during performances and then create the finished works back in the calmer atmosphere of his own studio. A preliminary drawing of the present work is now in the Leeds University Collection. As founder member of the Camden Town Group (1911), Gore’s intuitive artistic intelligence, supported by his growing understanding of French Post-Impressionism, led him towards bold experimental compositions which were radical
in form and colour.