The Serenade

A depiction of a guitar player and tambourinist playing to three people seated at a table with wine.

Possibly intended for exhibition. Undoubtedly mature in style, possible painted in France, the subject is less usual for Alec Fleming, showing interactions in an interior rather than portrait studies. Nevertheless, the scene is charmingly and dynamically caught, with the rapid multi directional brush strokes echoing the music and the atmosphere. The melancholy expression of the female drink- er and the trio at the table add drama. Probably painted from sketches, photographic reference or imagination. The reserved canvas on the back of the figure in thge fore-.

Attributed to Alec Fleming.

The catalogue records a signature but qualifies it; the attribution is given as the cataloguer’s opinion.

Catalogue wording: “Alec Fleming unusually signed in red paint -lower right.”

How attributions are worded

Signed in red paint -lower right.

Unusually no marks to the rear of the picture.

Un varnished.