2-620-779 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Saturday Night in the Vale', 1928-9. Also known as ‘An Evening in the Vale’. We see George Moore (1852-1933), in the foreground reading aloud from his manuscript of 'Aphrodite in Aulis', a novel which he published in 1930. The audience consists of, from left to right, St John Hutchinson (1884–1942) Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942) (in the arm-chair), Tonks (standing by the mantel- piece) and Mrs Mary St John Hutchinson (1889-1977). The painting is held in the Tate, London. From The Studio Volume 105. [The Offices of the Studio Ltd., London, 1933]