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James Woodford:
Study of a Male Torso, mid-1920s
Framed (ref: 564)
Signed
Pencil, 9 x 6 1/2 in. (22.6 x 16.7 cm.)

Tags: James Woodford pencil Highlights of 20/21 Art Fair life drawing men

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist’s son

Woodford was one of the most distinguished sculptors of his generation, and his anatomical studies, relatively few of which appear to have survived, show a faultless understanding of anatomy, as would be expected of a student who was awarded the 1922 Rome Scholarship in Sculpture (see also cats. 127 and 134).

In a gilded oak square section frame with gilded oak slip, glazed