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Frank Brangwyn:
Navvies at Work, 1905
Unmounted (ref: 5306)

Charcoal heightened with white on brown paper, squared for transfer, 9 1/2 x 11 in. (24 x 28 cm.)

Tags: Frank Brangwyn charcoal men

Provenance:Waldron West until 1994; thence by descent.

Brangwyn was asked by Antonio Fradeletto, the General Secretary of the 1905 Biennale Commission, to design the interior for the British Room.  He painted 4 murals for the British Room: Navvies at Work, Rolling Mill, Blacksmith and Potters. 

Waldron West, a portrait painter who was born, trained and worked in  Worcestershire, was profoundly influenced by Brangwyn .  West befriended Brangwyn in the  late 1930's and as part of his friendship acquired, over the next two decades, a number of works from his mentor.

We are grateful to Dr. Horner for assistance.  This drawing will appear as reference A1337 in her forthcoming catalogue raisonne.