Study for 'America'
Framed (ref: 9095)
Study for America
Squared and numberedGouache on paper
9 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. (24.1 x 42.5 cm)
Provenance: The Artist's Estate
Hagedorn went to Manchester in 1905 to train in textile production and also studied art under Adolphe Valette at the local Manchester School of Art and then at The Slade School of Fine Ar, followied by two yearss in Paris, in 1912-13, when, working under Maurice Denis, he absorbed a range of avant-garde styles. On his return to England, he made a consciously pioneering attempt to introduce Modernism into Manchester through his work as both painter and designer. He became a British subject in 1914 and served as a Lance-Corporal in the Middlesex Regiment during World War I.
