Chris Beetles Gallery

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An Old Corsican

Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978)

Price

£950

Signed

Signed
Signed and dated 1921 in reverse in plate

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

6 ½ x 4 ½ inches

Literature

Harold Wright, 'Catalogue of the Etchings of G L Brockhurst', Print Collector's Quarterly, 1935, Vol XXII, No 1, Page 64, Catalogue Raisonné No 27;
William Dolan Fletcher, Complex Simplicity, Gerald Leslie Brockhurst and his Graphic Work, Connecticut: Eastern Press 1984, Page 36, Catalogue Raisonné No 27

Exhibited

'Gerald Brockhurst: A Dream of Fair Women', Fine Art Society, London, 1986, No 77;
'A Century of British Art: 1900-1945', Chris Beetles Gallery, 21 June-17 July 2021, No 74

Mounted

From an edition of 76

'The model is Mr Marquett, a well-known figure in Chelsea art circles and one of the last of the Dalziel school of wood-engravers.' (Harold Wright, The Print Collector's Quarterly, 1924)