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Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades:
Self portrait, 1941
Framed (ref: 7296)
Un-numbered proof
Signed with initials, dated

Tags: Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades print woodcut portraits 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

Provenance: The Artist's son.

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.319.

The wood engraving dates to 1941 when Rhoades moved with his family to Bran End, near Dunmow, Essex. A trial proof of an early state in the final block the experimental shadows in the background  has been entirely removed.