Stanley Lewis: Study for Right Hand Side of Hyde Park in Summer, 1931 - on Art WW I

picture

 SOLD


 
Stanley Lewis:
Study for Right Hand Side of Hyde Park in Summer, 1931

Framed (ref: 3824)

Black chalk on paper, 100 1/4 x 59 3/4 in. (254.5 x 151.8 cm.)

Tags: Stanley Lewis chalk allegory Lewis



Provenance: from the artist's own collection.

Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.29




This life-size cartoon, which indicates the scale on which the Hyde Park mural was originally envisaged,  conveys a monumentality which is, arguably, lacking in the finished oil painting.

John Midgley, Principal of Carmarthen, commented on Stanley's skill as a draftsman as follows:
His work was always marked by thoroughness and strong individuality, and in his drawing he showed himself to be the possessor of a rare skill in the characterization of his subject.  In figure work in particular his studies evinced his ability to appreciate and render form. (January 1926)


Share on instagram    Share on Twitter  Share on Google +  Share on Pinterest  Share by mail