The Quarrel amongst the Sunflowers

細節

Leonard Rosoman, R.A. (b. 1913)
The Quarrel amongst the Sunflowers
signed and dated 'Leonard Rosoman 1947' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 x 24 in. (71 x 61 cm.)

出版

M.Middleton, Four English Romantics, Orpheus - A Symposium of the Arts, London, 1948, vol. 1, p. 112, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Leonard Rosoman: A War Retrospective, London, Imperial War Museum, 1989.

展覽

London, Imperial War Museum, Leonard Rosoman: A War Retrospective, October - November 1989, no. 30: this exhibition travelled to Fine Art Society, Edinburgh, December 1989 - January 1990.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The artist writes in reference to the present work, 'You may or may not know that I was an Official War Artist during the latter part of World War II. This had a curious effect on me in that I was able to paint but the situation presented by life aboard an aircraft carrier was full of stress and a kind of devouring excitement. I was very young (mid 20s) and inexperienced, and although I felt myself responding to certain aspects of a menacing world it did have a draining effect on me - I felt brittle. The adjustment to a kind of normal life was difficult for everybody. It created the need for some continuity during radical change and my answer was to substitute a private war for the public one. One of the first paintings I did was The Quarrel - it is a return to a violent incident in my childhood involving my father and one of his mistresses' (private correspondence, 12th December 1987).