Chris Beetles Gallery

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Le Beguin (Anaïs)

Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978)

Price

£1,450

Signed

Signed
Signed in reverse in plate

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

5 ½ x 4 ½ inches

Literature

Hugh Stokes, 'The Etchings of G L Brockhurst', The Print Collector's Quarterly, 1924, Vol XI, No 4, Page 435 (illus); Harold Wright, 'Catalogue of the Etchings of G L Brockhurst', The Print Collector's Quarterly, 1935, Vol XXII, No 1, Page 65, Catalogue Raisonné No 33;
William Dolan Fletcher, Complex Simplicity, Gerald Leslie Brockhurst and his Graphic Work, Connecticut: Eastern Press 1984, Page 41, Catalogue Raisonné No 33

Exhibited

'Gerald Brockhurst: A Dream of Fair Women', Fine Art Society, London, 1986, No 79;
'A Century of British Art: 1900-1945', Chris Beetles Gallery, 21 June-17 July 2021, No 78

Framed

From an edition of 76

Produced in 1922, this etching shows the artist's first wife Anaïs. The title of the plate is taken from the French-Moorish cap or head band worn by women from Anaïs's home town of Dax, in southwest France. Beguin means bonnet and also, colloquially, an infatuation.

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