Lot 132
132
Maxwell Armfield (1882-1972)

Details
Maxwell Armfield (1882-1972)

The Triumph of Love

oil on canvas
50 x 30½in. (127 x 77.5cm.)

Painted in 1904
Provenance
A.A. Ballard
Exhibited
Southampton, Art Gallery, Maxwell Armfield, June-July 1978, no.6 as 'The Secret Rose or Inspiration': this exhibition travelled to Birmingham, Art Gallery, August-Sept. 1978; and London, Fine Art Society, Oct.-Nov. 1978
London, Christie's, N.E.A.C. Centenary Exhibition, August-Sept. 1986, no.195

Lot Essay

Armfield wrote of this work in 1968 'It belongs to the period when I was keen on Watts ... late Birmingham ... when I was trying to be 'normal' in an idealised sort of way'.

The head of the male figure is a self-portrait
(see A.A. Ballard, Maxwell Armfield, Southampton Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 1978, p.1)

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