Modern British Art
Modern British Art
Euan Uglow
Portrait of Roy Gentry
Auction Closed
June 28, 02:51 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Euan Uglow
1932 - 2000
Portrait of Roy Gentry
oil on board
unframed: 40 by 25.5cm.; 15¾ by 10in.
framed: 44.5 by 30.5cm.; 17½ by 12in.
Executed in 1949.
We are grateful to the Catherine Lampert for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Gifted by the Artist to Roy and Jesse Gentry, and thence by family descent
Catherine Lampert, Euan Uglow, The Complete Paintings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, no. 4, illustrated p. 3
Roy Gentry and Uglow were friends from West Norwood - they swam together and were both in the boy scouts. The portrait was painted when they were both eighteen. The Gentrys remember Uglow always drawing, even during a badminton tournament or on the bus.
Catherine Lampert
Catherine Lampert