Ernest Thesiger sold I’m not sure why I

I’m not sure why I feel such an affinity for post war Britain

It is an endless mystery to me that paintings of this quality and decorative potential

Paisley Museum holds a fine example of the same beach viewed from the water

a studio nude and a genre painting

ending up as the Keep of Tigers at London Zoo

Ernest Thesiger sold I’m not sure why IThis is something very special, although perhaps more for vintage cinema buffs. The sitter is Ernest Thesiger CBE (1879 1961), not perhaps the most famous actor of his generation but a strong candidate for the most interesting. Im not going to cut and paste Wikipedia here but I urge you to look him up when you have a moment. Suffice to say he led a full and interesting life on the London stage and in 1930s Hollywood, befriended the great and the good