Lot Essay
Simon Watney (loc. cit.) remarks of the present work 'One of the most remarkable [of the large number of magnificent paintings from the 1930s] is his circa 1931 [Aphrodite] an homage to Titian's great Venus Anadyomene from the early 1520s, in the National Gallery of Scotland, given the facial features of his daughter Angelica. Here the paint is dense and closely fractured and this style of painting could reach levels of high abstraction, which at times seems to anticipate the post-war work of Bomberg's followers in the School of London'.