Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd hang on to that one! I very much like the style, composition and the draughtsmanship. I really like the sense of motion (however slow!) conveyed by the line of his arm and the donkey's heads. He's pushing them on, but they are moving. There are touches that remind me of late 19th/early 20th century draughtsmen going back to people like Beardsley. A real find! Peter On 23/06/2023 01:30, Douglas Barry wrote: > According to US writer Patricia Cornwell about 20 years ago, she > postulated the idea that the infamous Whitechapel serial killer was the > well known painter Walter Sickert. Naturally, it's a theory which is > totally unprovable right now, and probably for ever. > > However, I was doing some work on our art - paintings, prints and old > photographs we have that we never got around to hanging. We have been > buying what we think is painterly art for over forty years in various > auctions, including furniture ones, which are cheap, sometimes quite > interesting and do turn up the odd surprising item. However, due to our > downsizing, we have a fair bit stored in a corner of a room, and > something has to be done with it before I shuffle off and join the Choir > Invisible. > > In going through it, I came across a couple of nice woodcuts from an > artist called Mabel Allington Royds - see wikipedia - who it transpires > was taught by Ms Cornwell's chief Ripper suspect.? It's not worth a lot, > but in turn is worth a lot more than we actually paid for it. This lady > worked in India and this picture is called "The Donkey Boy" and is > probably a scene from Varanasi (then Benares) in the state of Uttar > Pradesh. Nice to know that another copy of it is in the Victoria and > Albert Museum in London. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/The+Donkey+Boy.jpg.html > > Can be seen larger. iPhone SE > > Douglas > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Dr. Peter Dzwig