‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Jubilee Musings

Inscribed Jubilee Musings. (lower centre)

Pencil and watercolour

17.7 x 18.4cm

Unframed

Provenance:

Siegfried Sassoon;

And by family descent

This work depicts John Masefield at the gates of Pinbury Park, his home from 1932-1940. Sassoon's first published success, 'The Daffodil Murderer', was a parody of Masefield's 'The Everlasting Mercy'. Robert Graves described it as a 'parody of Masefield which, midway through, had forgotten to be a parody and turned into rather good Masefield'. Given the title, this work probably dates from 1935 (the year of George V's Silver Jubilee).