Charles Mahoney (1903-1968)

The Marriage of the Virgin

Details

Charles Mahoney (1903-1968)
The Marriage of the Virgin
signed and inscribed 'Study for one of the smaller/panels size 3' x 3'/in the Lady Chapel at/Campion Hall, Oxford./'The Marriage of the Virgin'/Charles Mahoney/Oak Cottage,/Wrotham,/Nr Sevenoaks.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on paper
11¾ x 11¼ in. (29.9 x 28.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1942.

Provenance

Elizabeth Bulkeley, the artist's daughter.
Purchased by the mother of the present vendors at the 2000 exhibition.

Exhibited

Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery (on loan).
London, Barbican Art Gallery, The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, February - April 1989, no. 481.
London, Fine Art Society, Charles Mahoney, April 2000, no. 79.

Lot Essay

John Christian describes the present work in the 1989 exhibition catalogue (loc. cit.) 'A study for one of the smaller (approx 3 x 3ft) murals at [the Lady Chapel at] Campion Hall, Oxford. In detail and in composition the paintings owe much to early Italian example. The most notable case is Our Lady of Mercy (Autumn), which is clearly inspired by Piero della Francesca's altarpiece at Borgo San Sepolchro, but the man breaking a stick in the foreground of The Marriage of the Virgin recalls Raphael's painting of the same subject in the Brera, Milan, where the motif is prominent'.

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