Victor Hume Moody: Nude, seated on blanket, right hand held up, left arm raised - on Art WW I

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Victor Hume Moody:
Nude, seated on blanket, right hand held up, left arm raised

Unmounted (ref: 5113)

Charcoal, 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (50 x 40 cm.)

Tags: Victor Hume Moody charcoal life drawing



Provenance: The Artist's Estate; Private collection


Victor Moody’s distinctive voice has yet to find a large, enthusiastic and
appreciative public. He is not alone. He is in good company with other
British artists from the period, whose work is strikingly recognizable and
yet at the same time almost permanently out of vogue: Robert Weir Allen,
Harry Morley, William Strang, Charles Sims, Charles Shannon, Ambrose
McEvoy, Stanley Lewis, Albert Victor Wood. All displayed remarkable
technical skill - grounded in a profound and thorough training in draughtsmanship,
combined with acutely observed narratives. They are infused
with humour and idiosyncrasy. While the skill might be beyond dispute,
the subject matter and composition can make the work inaccessible to
a modern day audience. There is a sense of melodrama, a distortion of
beauty, a heightening of colour which unsettles. Most viewers are drawn
to conclude, sometimes reluctantly, more often readily, that the work produced
by such artists does not merit serious consideration. But what today
is seen, at best, as an enchanted backwater, might well be understood by
future generations to represent a more mainstream current of the art of its
day. The inherent quality of their work and the originality of their vision
begs a reassessment of their individual and collective place in twentieth
century British Art.

Moody worked in the Renaissance manner  building his oil paintings through pencil studies from life which he would later incorporate into his finished compositions.



Europa and the Powers, National Trust

A download of the LLFA Victor Moody catalogue can be obtained via the following link: 
/download/LFA_Victor_Moody_catalogue.pdf


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