Meditation

Details

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, R.A. (1890-1978)
Meditation
signed 'G L Brockhurst' (lower left)
charcoal and pencil
13 x 10 ½ in. (33.1 x 26.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1930.

Exhibited

Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, A Dream of Fair Women. An Exhibition of the Work of Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, R.A. (1890-1978): Painter and Etcher, December 1986 - February 1987, no. 55: this exhibition travelled to Birmingham, Birmingham City Art Gallery, February - March 1987; and London, National Portrait Gallery, April - May 1987.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This drawing is believed to be an informal study of Kathleen (Dorette) Nancy Woodward, dating from the early 1930s. In 1928, Brockhurst met the sixteen year-old model, Kathleen, after being appointed a Visitor to the Royal Academy Schools. The artist was immediately enamoured with Kathleen's youthful beauty and she was to become his lifelong model and second wife.

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