John Lessore, Denis Lucas

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...

Provenance

presented by James Hyman 1994

Literature

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.

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