Size 25" x 30"
Format Oil on Canvas
Signature Lower Right
Frame Not known
History of the painting
| Date | Auctioneer | Lot | Offer Price | Sale Price |
| 12 Apr 1985 | Sotheby's London | 175 | £5,000 - £7,000 | £10,000 |
| 16 Dec 1987 | Sotheby's London | 150 | £12,000 - £16,000 | £12,500 |
Other observations
This painting is believed to be a painting of Harry's wife Edmee. It was painted two years after they were married and around the time that their first child, a son, was born.
The painting is the same size as a few others painted around this time.
The box on the floor also features in the painting called "The Interruption" painted a year earlier.
The term "Treasured Volume" presumably refers to the book Edmee is reading and not to those strewn around the floor!
Harry Brooker signed this painting H Brooker, a style that only applies to
his earliest paintings. Later he consistently used his full Christian name "Harry".