SOLDTwo pink Carnations in a green glass, crica 1950
Passe-partout (ref: 5326)
Watercolour and gouache over pencil, 12 1/4 x 6 3/8 in. (31 x 16.3 cm.)
SOLDWatercolour and gouache over pencil, 12 1/4 x 6 3/8 in. (31 x 16.3 cm.)
Brill was an exceptional draftsman and painter who studied under Henry Tonks at the Slade School 1921-4 going on to win a Scholarship for painting at the British School in Rome 1927-29. He exhibited at the RA, Leicester Galleries and in East Anglia, where he lived, at Lavenham and was principal of Kingston School of Art. He was author of Modern Painting and Art as a Career. Kingston Polytechnic, the Royal Borough and the Phoenix Gallery organized a retrospective in Kingston in 1985, with another at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, 1999.
