Lot Essay
The sitter, Pepita, was the wife of the composer Bobby Hazleton Ross. Brockhurst had used her as a model in 1922 for a work entitled Pepita.
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Details
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978)
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oil on panel
24 x 18 1/8 in. (61 x 46 cm.)
Delores
oil on panel
24 x 18 1/8 in. (61 x 46 cm.)
Provenance
with Scott & Fowles, New York.
Engraved
By the artist, 'Viba', in 1929.
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