Seated woman at the piano

Details

Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)
Seated woman at the piano
with studio stamp (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
24 x 20 in. (60.9 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1948-49.

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Lot Essay

Jennings's exploration of seated figures ties in with his idea of reaching the essence of reality of the figure through a fragmentation which the viewer's mind is in a way asked to re-compose - in that sense he can be seen as following the tracks of analytical cubism.

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