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Gerald Leslie BrockhurstIn the Wood1920
1920
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Etching, 1920
Signed in pencil
Edition: 110 examples
Very fine condition
Provenance: Colnaghi, London (stock numbers on reverse)
The artist'w widow, Dorette, 1998
This image is influenced by English Pre-Raphaelite artists. Brockhurst was a close friend of the painter Augustus John. This image shows his debt to his friend and teacher.
Gerald L. Brockhurst (1890-1978)
Born in Birmingham, England, Gerald Brockhurst was hailed as “a young Botticelli” in 1902 when he was only 12. Brockhurst fell deeply under the spell of Piero della Francesca, and consciously evoked the quattrocento tradition of setting his figures against spare landscapes and sky. By the 1930s, Piero was perceived anew as a magic realist, and his work finds echoes in Otto Dix, Grant Wood, Balthus — and Brockhurst.
In 1932, Brockhurst produced one of his most famous works, a near-photographic etching, Adolescence. In Britain, it was a positive scandal to show a picture of a 16-year-old nude, no matter that the private parts were in deepest shadow. The furor over Brockhurst’s 15-inch-high etching is said to have necessitated his 1939 move to America. He became an American citizen in 1949.
Brockhurst had taken up etching in 1920, making it his favorite medium until 1947, when he completely abandoned printmaking. He earned his living painting “society portraits,” and painted such notables as Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor. He said he sought to record appearance, not character.
Central to his work is female beauty presented in detailed observation and with technical perfection. His women are mysterious, complicated and exciting, reflecting the artist's understanding of artistic traditions, portraiture, and the expression of allegory in the female image. His favorite subject in the 1920s was his exotic wife Anais, subject of such works as L'Eventail (1921) and The Black Silk Dress (1927).
In 1929, he fell in love with model Kathleen Woodward, the sitter for his scandalous etching Adolescence. Kathleen became his second wife after he obtained a divorce in 1939, and the two moved to New Jersey. Kathleen died in 1995. Brockhurst himself died in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, in 1978.
Education: Birmingham School of Art; Royal Academy, London, England; also in Paris, France, and Milan, Italy.
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London; Art Institute of Chicago, 1935 and 1940.
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- Creator:Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890 - 1978, English)
- Creation Year:1920
- Dimensions:Height: 4.875 in (12.39 cm)Width: 5.875 in (14.93 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Fairlawn, OH
- Reference Number:Seller: FA49401stDibs: LU14015705832
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
(b Birmingham, 31 Oct. 1890; d Franklin Lakes, NJ, 4 May 1978). British-born painter and etcher who became an American citizen in 1949. Precociously gifted, an excellent draughtsman, and a fine craftsman, Brockhurst won several prizes at the Royal Academy Schools and went on to have a highly successful career as a society portraitist, first in Britain and then in the USA, where he settled in 1939, working in New York and New Jersey. He is best known for his portraits of glamorous women, painted in an eye-catching, dramatically lit, formally posed style similar to that later associated with Annigoni. As an etcher Brockhurst is remembered particularly for Adolescence (1932), a powerful study of a naked girl on the verge of womanhood staring broodingly into a mirror—one of the masterpieces of 20th-century printmaking.
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