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Description:
"Una," (1929) by the British artist Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978), etching, artist's proof. This fine etching is 8 9/16" x 6 1/4," signed in pencil, in very good condition, Fletcher 65.
The British artist, Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978), was regarded from the age of twelve as "a young Botticelli", producing during the twenties and thirties gracefully executed oils and etchings with masterfully polished craftsmanship and panache. Brockhurst studied in England, France and Italy and was profoundly influenced by Piero della Francesca, Botticelli and DaVinci. His work echoes the Italian Renaissance style and methodology in its precise tones and textures grounded in exacting techniques. His Traditionalist style was seen as a reaction to 19th century Romanticism and independent of the early 20th century Post-Impressionists, Cubists, Vorticists and Italian Futurists calling up imagery of the Renaissance and the Italian Mannerists.
Brockhurst always viewed his etchings as serious works of art. He was an artist who idealized beautiful women and whose polished craftsmanship and enigmatic subjects fascinates the observer. Brockhurst's exotically named and clothed women seem evoke an art far removed from the 20th century and that of Renaissance Italy. Brockhurst's ambivalent portrayals of women evoke the subconscious penetration of the Renaissance artist whose subjects sometime appear as dangerous or seductive and not always appealing in the obvious subject matter of idealized and beautiful women but captivating in Brockhurst's coolly sensual draftsmanship evoking the observer's attraction "Una", Wright states, is a "portrait of a Creole lady" which was exhibited at the Royal Academy and Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1930. Salaman praised "Una" saying the "ripe-lipped face, 'full of the warm South,' [who] looks at you with eyes that seem to meet your own with humorous frankness, yet leave you wondering as to what subtle audacity may be behind them."
"Una" is exquisitely framed in a 20 5/8" x 24" fourteen wash layered distressed frame with 22 carat gold inner lip and an antique black wood fillet. The silk Mink colored mat is both acid and lignin free and protected with CYRO AR OP-3 UV.
| Status: Sold |
Reference#: 116 |
| Condition:
Very Good |
Year:
1929
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| Country:
England |
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| Title:
Una |
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