Signed, dedicated and dated  l.r.: G.Sauter/1910

Oil on board, 23 by 33.5 cm

Sauter was a close associate of James Abbot McNeill Whistler, arriving in London in 1889 and forming friendships with the American artist as well as G.F.Watts, Hubert Herkomer, James Guthrie and others through his wife Lilian Galsworthy. In the 1890s he was honoray secretary of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers during Whistler's presidency. Sauter had his own Whistler-style controversy. His 1902 work The Bridal Morning was shown in 1909 at the 13th Annual Carnegie Art Institute Exhibition in Pittsburgh and "caused a public outcry in a similar vein to that of Manet's E. Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe(z334) or Whistler's Symphony in White, No. I: The White Girl (YMSM 38)" (website entry, Glasgow University, The Correspondance of James McNeill Whistler). Nocturnes of a Whistlerian vein are a regular feature of his work, such as in the present London view, or his 1906 painting "Dordecht, The Netherland, by Night" which forms part of a significant collection of his work in Leeds Museum and Art Galleries.