Lot 173
173
Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, K.C.V.O., P.R.A., R.H.A. (1879-1972)
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Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, K.C.V.O., P.R.A., R.H.A. (1879-1972)

Burmese dancing girl

Details
Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, K.C.V.O., P.R.A., R.H.A. (1879-1972)
Burmese dancing girl
oil on paper laid down on board
19¼ x 15¼ in. (49 x 38.8 cm.)
Provenance
The contents of the Studio of the late Sir Gerald Kelly, K.C.V.O., P.R.A., R.H.A.; Christie's, London, 8 February 1980, lot 127.
Special notice
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Please note that the images for lot 172 and 173 have been transposed in the printed catalogue. Please refer to the images online.
Please note that the medium for this lot should read oil on paper laid down on board and not as stated in the printed catalogue.

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Lot Essay

Somerset Maugham wrote of Kelly’s paintings:
‘His Burmese dancers… have a strange impenetrability, their gestures are enigmatic and yet significant, they are charming and yet there is something curiously hieratic in their manner; with a sure instinct and with a more definite feeling for decoration than is possible in a portrait. Mr Kelly has given us the character of the East as we of our generation see it’ (W.S. Maugham, A Student of Character, 1914, pp. 30-31, 36.)

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