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Brian StonehouseOrange Vestsc.1975
c.1975
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Gouache and charcoal on paper, 53cm x 37cm (74cm x 55cm framed). Provenance: the Artist’s estate (stamped verso).
Stonehouse had an extraordinary life. As a young art student studying fashion illustration, he joined the Royal Artillery at the beginning of WWII but soon became a part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was sent to France as a radio operator but three and a half months later was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, given a death sentence and then selected for slave labour. He spent the subsequent war years in three French prisons and five concentration and labour camps, including Dachau. He still managed to continue to draw in some of the camps. Following the war, Stonehouse went to the US and continued his career as a fashion artist painting for magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Elizabeth Arden. He was also an accomplished portraitist. His work is celebrated in Brian Stonehouse: Artist, Soldier, War Hero, Fashion Illustrator (by Frederic A. Sharf with Michelle Finamore, Curator of Fashion Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts). The MFA, Boston hold a collection of his work.
- Creator:Brian Stonehouse (1918 - 1998, British)
- Creation Year:c.1975
- Dimensions:Height: 29.14 in (74 cm)Width: 21.66 in (55 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:Seller: stonehouse, orange vests1stDibs: LU2263211492842
Brian Stonehouse
Brian Julian Warry Stonehouse was born in Torquay. He went to school in France before studying at Ipswich School of Art. At the outbreak of World War II he was conscripted into the Royal Artillery. Because of his fluent French he joined Special Operations Executive and was parachuted into occupied France in July 1942. After several months of regular wireless transmissions back to Britain he was arrested by the Germans on 24 October 1942. After frequent brutal interrogations he was moved from concentration camp to concentration camp until he eventually arrived in Dachau where he was liberated by US troops on 29 April 1945. After the war he was able to testify at several war crimes trials. In 1946 Stonehouse returned to his career as a fashion artist in the United States, drawing for magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Elizabeth Arden. In 1979 he returned to Britain where, in addition to his fashion illustrations, he became a portrait painter whose sitters included several members of the Royal Family.
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