Alan Sorrell: Self Portrait, nov 1928 - on Art WW I

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Alan Sorrell:
Self Portrait, nov 1928

Framed (ref: 935)
Signed and dated
pencil, ink and white gouache on paper 

Tags: Alan Sorrell gouache ink pencil artists at work portraits 1.BSR 1.Master Drawings 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST



Provenance: The artist's son, Richard Sorrell



Literature: 

Sacha Llewellyn & Richard Sorrell (ed), Alan Sorrell; the Life and Works of an English Neo-Romantic Artist, (Bristol: Sansom & Co.) 2013, pp. 30-31 & 82. Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.275.

Sorrell undertook this self-portrait one month after he had arrived in Rome to take up his two-year scholarship, and it shows him in his downstairs studio at the British School. The self-portrait makes a bold statement and the quality of draughtsmanship and commanding composition make it one of the most striking works that Sorrell produced in Rome.
The intensely observed and sharply delineated drawing of the folds and other forms

demonstrate a study of Masaccio and Piero della Francesca and other Italian Renaissance masters.
Sorrell’s presentation of himself is introspective and melancholic, reflecting his state of mind during these early days in Rome.


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