Gitana Music

Details

Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (1880-1969)
Gitana Music
signed 'W RUSSELL FLINT' (lower left), signed again 'W Russell Flint, Red Cottage, Campden Hill W8' (on the stretcher) and inscribed 'GITANA MUSIC' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
33 x 40 in. (83.7 x 101.7 cm.)

Literature

Arnold Palmer, More than Shadows, A Biography of W. Russell Flint, London, 1943, pl. 69.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1932, no. 399.

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Lot Essay

Russell Flint made an extensive tour of Spain in 1931, where he made several sketches that were subsequently worked into finished paintings. The country was in the midst of political upheaval. After a huge republican majority was returned in the general election, King Alfonso XIII 'suspended the exercise of Royal power' and went into voluntary exile in Rome. Flint was inspired by vibrancy of Spanish culture and the spirit of the people, which found keenest expression in the Gypsies, or 'Gitanas'. He was to find a ready market for these subjects amongst the British picture buying public.

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