OILS
c1916
44.5×54.6cm
Prov: Kojiro Matsukata (£100); destroyed in Pantechnicon Fire, No 152 on list
Studies: Liss: Death and the Devil, Belleroche No 138, 42x41cm, red, black and white chalk and paint on cream paper, monogram b.c. Verso under fold of paper: ‘113 William de Belleroche Collection’. Prov: Belleroche (No 138), Anderson. Exh: Frank Brangwyn. A Mission to Decorate Life, The Fine Art Society, 2006, Cat 31, p76 and illustrated p15 – £1500.
Exh: Queensgate 1924 (28) lent by Matsukata
Ill: Eden Philpotts, The Girl and the Faun, Cecil Palmer & Hayward, London, 1916, facing p66. Horner, ‘Brangwyn and The Japanese Connection’, The Decorative Arts Society, Journal 26, 2002, p76
Ref: Galloway 531
A cold looking picture with a blue draped figure centre, a sad looking faun left, bare trees, snow on the ground and crows flying round.