Chris Beetles Gallery

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The Two Mélisandes

Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978)

Price

£1,250

Signed

Signed in pencil
Signed in reverse in the plate

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

6 x 3 ½ inches

Literature

Harold Wright, 'The Later Etchings by G L Brockhurst', The Print Collector's Quarterly, 1934, Vol XXI, No 4, Page 327, Plate 60;
Harold Wright, 'Catalogue of the Etchings of G L Brockhurst', The Print Collector's Quarterly, 1935, Vol XXII, No 1, Page 71, Catalogue Raisonné No 60;
William Dolan Fletcher, Complex Simplicity, Gerald Leslie Brockhurst and his Graphic Work, Connecticut: Eastern Press 1984, Page 58, Catalogue Raisonné No 60

Exhibited

Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers 1929, No 145;
'Gerald Brockhurst: A Dream of Fair Women', Fine Art Society, London, 1986, No 93;
'A Century of British Art: 1900-1945', Chris Beetles Gallery, 21 June-17 July 2021, No 84

Mounted

This portrait of the artist's first wife, Anaïs, and their daughter, Melisande, was produced in February 1928.

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