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The Dancer Brockhurst

The Dancer (Anaïs).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Dancer (Anaïs). 1925. Etching. Fletcher catalog 52 state viii. 9 3/4 x 6 1/16 (Sheet 14 1/4 x
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Etching

The Dancer (Anaïs).
The Dancer (Anaïs).

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
The Dancer (Anaïs)., 1925

H 20 in W 16 in D 2 in
The Dancer (Anais)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in New York, NY
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1891-1978), The Dancer (Anais), 1925, etching, signed lower right and
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1920s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Dancer (Anais)

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
The Dancer (Anais), 1925

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Etching on cream wove paper. 6 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches (159 x 94 mm), full margin. Signed in pencil lower center margin, from the edition of 111. A well inked impression with a minor cre...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Prints

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H 6.32 in W 3.75 in
The Black Silk Dress (Anaïs).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Black Silk Dress. 1927. Etching. Fletcher catalog 58 state .ix (published state). 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 (sheet 14 1/2 x 9 1/8). Edition 76 in this state; total 111 proofs). Exhibited at...
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1920s Renaissance Portrait Prints

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Etching

The Black Silk Dress (Anaïs).
The Black Silk Dress (Anaïs).

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
The Black Silk Dress (Anaïs)., 1927.

H 24.13 in W 20.13 in D 2 in
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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst for sale on 1stDibs

(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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