E. Phillips Fox visited North Africa in 1911 when his painting was at its best. In a period of about two months, he produced some of the freest and most impressionistic works of his oeuvre.

Frequent title changes since Fox’s death in 1915 and doubts about attribution of some works have limited interest these works until now. North African works are barely mentioned in catalogues and accounts of Fox’s work.

Bower has catalogued many of the North African paintings using painstaking identification of contemporary images and suggests reversion to the original title for five works, including one in the LWAG collection, and a change of attribution for two works. This is a fascinating forensic saga.