Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (Birmingham 1890 – Franklin Lakes 1978) Jeunesse Doree (1942) Signed and dated lower right Edition of 75 Etching Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands Literature: Fletcher 80 Note: During the 1930s and 1940s the celebrated portraitist Gerald Leslie Brockhurst mostly painted society figures such as Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor. Today he is best known for his small etched prints of beautiful, idealized women – many of them modeled by his first and second wives. In the present lot Brockhurst celebrates the beauty of Kathleen Woodward, whom he had renamed Dorette (meaning 'gift'). They met in the late nineteen twenties when she was a young model at the Royal Academy Schools and he a visiting professor, and she soon displaced his wife Anaïs at the center of his art. This pose echoes one established in Ophelia, a painting of ca. 1937 that Brockhurst presented to the Academy as his diploma piece in 1938. They would marry in 1947.
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (Birmingham 1890 – Franklin Lakes 1978) Jeunesse Doree (1942) Signed and dated lower right Edition of 75 Etching Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands Literature: Fletcher 80 Note: During the 1930s and 1940s the celebrated portraitist Gerald Leslie Brockhurst mostly painted society figures such as Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor. Today he is best known for his small etched prints of beautiful, idealized women – many of them modeled by his first and second wives. In the present lot Brockhurst celebrates the beauty of Kathleen Woodward, whom he had renamed Dorette (meaning 'gift'). They met in the late nineteen twenties when she was a young model at the Royal Academy Schools and he a visiting professor, and she soon displaced his wife Anaïs at the center of his art. This pose echoes one established in Ophelia, a painting of ca. 1937 that Brockhurst presented to the Academy as his diploma piece in 1938. They would marry in 1947.
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