Matissian Nude, Circa 1920, Verso Limpley Stoke, Bath Landscape: Art Deco Period Drawing and Watercolour, Lovely Provenance

1900 - 1920

Sold by Skippings Fine Arts

Description

A double sided graphite drawing and watercolour. While I have chosen to display the Matissian Nude for its sheer loveliness as a recto, but of course, sides could be reversed to show the watercolour of Limpley Stoke Valley near Bath instead.

Although unsigned, both work are by Reginald Goodfellow (1894-1985). They have lovely provenance: their previous owner was a British, Paris-based authority on the art deco period, who was a great champion of the artist.

Goodfellow was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker born in West Kensington, London and brought up in Lambeth, being educated locally. He showed an early aptitude for drawing and was apprenticed to a structural engineer. He served in Mesopotamia with the Royal Engineers during WWI. Afterwards he joined the Ministry of Works as a structural engineer and remained there until his retirement in 1959. He had no formal art training until 1927 when he attended classes at Westminster School of Art and was taught by Walter Bayes. He continued painting while working for the M.o.W. and exhibited once at the Royal Academy in 1939. After his death Michael Parkin Fine Art mounted the show 'Pupil and Master' (Goodfellow and Bayes) in 1986. His work was included in Sally Hunter Fine Art exhibition ' Twenties Veterans', 1988.

Our drawing/watercolour measure 24 x 34 cm at sight. There is some discolouration to the paper and smudge of paint, certainly made by the artist himself. The overall framed size is 44 x 53 cm.

Physical Dimensions

Height

24cm (9.45")

Width

34cm (13.39")

Depth

1cm (0.39")

Declaration

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1920s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA847512

Dealers Notes

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Description

A double sided graphite drawing and watercolour.

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While I have chosen to display the Matissian Nude for its sheer loveliness as a recto, but of course, sides could be reversed to show the watercolour of Limpley Stoke Valley near Bath instead.

Skippings Fine Arts

fig 1. Matissian Nude, circa 1920, verso Limpley Stoke, Bath landscape: art deco period drawing and watercolour, lovely provenance — fig 1. Matissian Nude, Circa 1920, Verso Limpley Stoke, Bath Landscape: Art Deco Period Drawing and Watercolour, Lovely Provenance

Although unsigned, both work are by Reginald Goodfellow (1894-1985). They have lovely provenance: their previous owner was a British, Paris-based authority on the art deco period, who was a great champion of the artist.

fig 2. Matissian Nude, circa 1920, verso Limpley Stoke, Bath landscape: art deco period drawing and watercolour, lovely provenance — fig 2. Matissian Nude, Circa 1920, Verso Limpley Stoke, Bath Landscape: Art Deco Period Drawing and Watercolour, Lovely Provenance

Goodfellow was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker born in West Kensington, London and brought up in Lambeth, being educated locally. He showed an early aptitude for drawing and was apprenticed to a structural engineer. He served in Mesopotamia with the Royal Engineers during WWI. Afterwards he joined the Ministry of Works as a structural engineer and remained there until his retirement in 1959. He had no formal art training until 1927 when he attended classes at Westminster School of Art and was taught by Walter Bayes. He continued painting while working for the M.o.W. and exhibited once at the Royal Academy in 1939. After his death Michael Parkin Fine Art mounted the show 'Pupil and Master' (Goodfellow and Bayes) in 1986. His work was included in Sally Hunter Fine Art exhibition ' Twenties Veterans', 1988.

Our drawing/watercolour measure 24 x 34 cm at sight. There is some discolouration to the paper and smudge of paint, certainly made by the artist himself. The overall framed size is 44 x 53 cm.