A typically bold oil on artist’s board painting by Hermione Hammond of a vase of flowers. The work is in thick impasto oils and the vase is strikingly set against a mauve background. The work is signed and dated 1940. The painting is mounted in a very good quality period gilt frame most likely the original. The painting has been professionally cleaned and the whole is in excellent ready to hang condition.Hermione Hammond (11 August 1910 – 29 July 2005) was an English painter who is most famous for her paintings of London damaged by the Blitz during World War II.Born in Hexham, Northumberland, to an artist mother and an invalid father. She attended the Francis Holland School in London (one of her schoolmates was actress Joyce Grenfell). She went on to study art at the Chelsea Polytechnic, then at the Royal Academy Schools, under Walter Russell and Tom Monnington. She learned mural decoration at the Royal College of Art and attended night classes in etching.She supported hers...