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Return of the Prodigal Son, circa 1925
Framed (ref: 224)
Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (24 x 25 cm.)
Tags: Charles Mahoney oil interiors religion
Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (24 x 25 cm.)
Tags: Charles Mahoney oil interiors religion
In a flat section gilded oak frame with pegged lap-joints
In 1922, on the strength of a Royal Exhibition in drawing, Mahoney
enrolled at the Royal College of Art, where he spent four productive
years under the
guidance of the College Principal and Professor of
Painting,William Rothenstein. Contemporaries at the college with whom
he formed life-long friendships included Edward Bawden, Barnett
Freedman, Percy Horton and Gerald Ososki. This composition is typical of
the biblical inspired narratives that Mahoney, and his contemporaries,
produced during this period at the RCA.