Figures in an interior

Details

Geoffrey Tibble (1909-1952)
Figures in an interior
signed 'Tibble' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
9½ x 13 in. (24.1 x 33 cm.)
and a black ink and watercolour by Denis Matthews, Grain from Maize, Co-operative Farm, 12¼ x 13½ in. (31.1 x 34.3 cm.) (2)

Provenance

with Tooth's, London.

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Lot Essay

Tibble exhibited at Tooth's Gallery, his show there in 1946, featuring figures in interiors in the manner of Degas and Vuillard, prompted Raymond Mortimer to place him 'in the front rank of living English painters' (see D. Buckman, The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945, Bristol, 1998, p. 1191).

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