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Victor Wood:
The Maid
Passe-partout (ref: 3543)

Pencil and gouache on paper, 12 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (31 x 15.5 cm.) 

(15 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (40 x 24.5 cm.) framed)

Tags: Victor Wood gouache pencil women

 Born in Dublin  into a cultivated family, Albert Victor Ormsby Wood attended  attended The Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin in the 1920's. For several years he worked in stained glass studios of Harry Clarke, sometimes modeling for him. Towards end of 1920s moved to London, married, exhibited at RA and RHA and opened his own art school. After volunteering for the British Army he was badly wounded in the London Blitz and was invalided out. In 1949 moved to Ansty, Sussex, where he lived the life of a reclusive artist.  For many years Wood created highly stylized pictures of women and wrote erotic fiction. Examples were shown in the exhibition A Voyeur in Art at Michael Parkin Gallery, 1992.