Lot 118
Leslie Hurry (British 1909-1978) §
Ceres and Bellus, 1945
Auction: 29 April 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Signed and dated in pen (lower left), pen, ink, crayon and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
37cm (14.5in) high, 46cm (18in) wide
Provenance
Provenance:
Albert Dawson Educational Trust.
The Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan Collection, Brighton, UK.
Footnote
Exhibited:
Pallant House Gallery, Poets in the Landscape, Romantic British Art, 31st March – 10th June 2007.
Literature:
Penguin New Writing, 1945, no.26 (illustrated);
Martin, Simon, Poets in the Landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art, Pallant House Gallery, 2007, cat. no.71 (illustrated).
Leslie Hurry produced a series of fantastic ink drawings during the early 1940s, based on imaginary kings, queens and altarpieces, which were headed with a long poetic text and bound together to form a private book entitled The Journey for Grace Sholto Douglas. The current work displays an equal degree of Blakean doom-laden symbolism, and is part of the revival of a British neo-Romantic movement in the years directly after the Second World War.