£1,700 

Charles Mahoney:
Allegory of Four Winds, circa 1925
Unmounted (ref: 10372)

Pencil and watercolour, squared 

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Provenance: The Artist's Studio

This early work is likely to date to the period that Mahoney was at the Royal College of Art, where he enrolled In 1922, on the strength of a Royal Exhibition in drawing.Here he spent four productive years under the guidance of the College Principal and Professor of Painting, Sir William Rothenstein.  Contemporaries at the College with whom he formed lifelong friendships included Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Percy Horton and Gerry Ososki. 

Mahoney was fond of the short stories and poems of Walter de la Mare.  This composition was  possibly inspired by de la Mare texts.