The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Townhouse

The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Townhouse

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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, R.A.

Adolescence

No reserve

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

signed in pencil (lower right)

etching on ivory wove paper

sheet: 17⅞ by 13¼ in.

45.3 by 33.6 cm

Executed in 1932, this impression is from the edition of 90.

David Tunick, Inc., New York;

From whom acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

William Dolan Fletcher, Complex Simplicity / Gerald Leslie Brockhurst and his Graphic Work, New Orleans 1984, no. 75 (another example)

The present lot features one of Brockhurst's most celebrated printed works, a richly inked impression of the artist's wife, Kathleen Woodward, known later as Dorette. The pair met in 1929 at the Royal Academy Schools in London, later eloping and settling in the United States.