John Lessore b. 1939
Denis Lucas
etching on paper
25 x 20
(lower right): JL
1994-3
@John Lessore
Photo: Bridgeman images
John Lessore rarely paints from life, working instead from sketches, memory and the imagination. Figurative but not descriptive, Lessore’s portrait etching of artist and fellow tutor at the Royal Academy...
John Lessore rarely paints from life, working instead from sketches, memory and the imagination. Figurative but not descriptive, Lessore’s portrait etching of artist and fellow tutor at the Royal Academy of Art, Denis Lucas, is half hidden and half revealed, softly printed in brown ink.
Provenance
presented by James Hyman 1994Literature
Sarah MacDougall ed., 'No Set Rules: A Century of Selected Works from the Schlee Collection, Southampton, and the Ben Uri Collection, London' (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015); Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 135.Be the first to know – Sign Up
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