GERALD BROCKHURST RA (1890-1978)
Una, 1929
etching printed in tone on laid paper with full margins
21.5 x 16 cm
During the 1920s etched portraits became Brockhurst’s primary focus, and following a well received exhibition in 1919 he returned to London and became an early member of the Society of Graphic Art, exhibiting with them.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 2 May 2019, lot 17, where purchased
Literature
W. D. Fletcher, Complex Simplicity: Gerald Leslie Brockhurst and His Graphic Work. 1984, no. 65, p. 60, illustrated.
H. J. L. Wright, ‘Catalogue of the Etchings of G. L. Brockhurst’, Print Collector's Quarterly, 22, 1935, no. 65, p. 73.