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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 277

Gerald Brockhurst "Ophelia" Etching

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Starting Bid
$600

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Signed lower right. 

Date: 1942

 

Image: 11 1/2" Tall x 9 1/4" Wide 

Frame: 20 3/4" Tall x 16 3/4" Wide 

 

Condition: Minor toning to the paper. The print is in good condition. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978) was born in Birmingham, England, entered the Birmingham School of Art at the age of twelve, and went on to the Royal Academy Schools, where he won a gold medal and a traveling scholarship that took him to Italy and France. The Italian Renaissance masters he studied on that journey shaped everything that followed: hard, clear outlines, sculpted faces and pale, distant landscapes. By the 1920s he was among the most admired British etchers of his generation, celebrated for portrait etchings of young women, many modeled on his first wife, Anaïs. He later settled in the United States, where he painted society and film portraits, including Marlene Dietrich.

Brockhurst's sitters often appear in his work under assumed or literary names. "Ophelia," his etching of 1942, portrays Kathleen Nancy Woodward, who modeled for him through the 1930s and 1940s and became his second wife in 1947. Rather than Shakespeare's broken heroine, Brockhurst gives her a level, self possessed gaze, with the same cool Renaissance clarity he brought to his finest plates.

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