Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the comments, Peter, Jayanand and Ric. We're hanging the pair of them up. Douglas On 23/06/2023 10:19, Peter Dzwig wrote: > 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 >