Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1882-1972)

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Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1882-1972)

Homage to Oriental Masters (The Sphinx of Meru)

signed with monogram lower left and inscribed op 254, tempera on paper laid on card
12¾ x 15¾in. (32.5 x 40cm.)

Painted in 1948

there is a landscape watercolour by the same artist on the reverse signed with initials and dated '08'
Provenance
The Artist's Studio
Literature
M. Armfield, Notebook V, 1948, op.308

Exhibited
Bournemouth, Russell Coates Art Gallery, 1949 (no catalogue traced)
London, Kensington Art Gallery, Recent Works by Maxwell Armfield, September 1949, no.20
Southport Art Gallery, 1950 (no catalogue traced)
Salisbury School of Art, 1950 (no catalogue traced)
London, Leicester Galleries, Maxwell Armfield, 1966, no.6
Bath, 1968 (no catalogue traced)
London, Fine Art Society, Homage to Maxwell Armfield, April - May 1970, no.39
Southampton, Art Gallery, Maxwell Armfield 1881-1972, June - November 1978, no.56: this exhibition travelled to Birmingham, Art Gallery, and London, Fine Art Society
London, Royal Academy, 1982

Lot Essay

The artist recorded in his Notebook that this work was 'largely inspired by Charles Ricketts'. Other works in the Homage to Masters series include 'Flemish Painters' 1953, 'Jean Clouet and French Painters' 1947 and 'J.S. Bach'

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