Harlequin

細節

Denton Welch (1915-1948)
Harlequin
watercolour
5½ x 8¼ in. (14 x 21 cm.)
Executed between circa 1940-1941.

來源

Hallam Fordham, by whom purchased at the 1954 exhibition.

展覽

London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by Denton Welch, May 1954, no. 36.

注意事項

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拍品專文

Denton Welch was an artist and writer who was born in Shanghai, China. He studied at St. Michael's, Uckfield, and at Repton, then for four years at Goldsmith's College School of Art. In 1935, Welch was knocked off his bicycle by a motorist, cutting short his artistic career. The accident destroyed his health and he died from successive illnesses related to his injuries at the age of 33.