Study for ‘Park Lane, London’

Set during an autumn afternoon at the height of the Depression, this view looks eastward from within Hyde Park across select Park Lane to ‘Millionaire’s Row’, a procession of the most expensive residences then in London’s West End. Dobell has scratched a line of seats into his oil paint, then set in the park’s unbroken fence, behind which we can make out red London buses moving toward Marble Arch.