Hubert Arthur Finney:
Venus, circa 1950
Framed (ref: 10015)

Oil on paper

Tags: Hubert Arthur Finney oil night scenes and sleep 1.H.A.Finney

Provenance: The Artist's Studio

Literature: The Lightbox, Woking, Out of the Shadows, 2020, cat 94

A reclusive figure whose work has remained largely unseen, Finney studied under Eric Gill before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in the early 1920's; his closest friends there were Charles Mahoney,(1903-1968), Gerald Ososki (1903-1981) and Barnett Freedman (1901-1958). All four appear together in Freedman's group portrait, The Stanhope Street Group (1926). Finney had the good fortune to attend the RCA as part of a generation that were to become amongst Britain's best loved artists (Ravilious, Bawden, Hepworth, Moore, Dunbar, Sorrell, Piper etc).