THE BLACK SILK DRESS

© Richard Woodward

THE BLACK SILK DRESS 1927

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890 – 1978)

Details

Dimension
22.3 X 16.1 CM
Media
ETCHING
Accession number
P2445

Summary

The sitter is the artist’s wife, Anaïs, who came from the Basque region of France. The etching is after an oil painting in the collection of St Louis Museum of Art, and shows Brockhurst’s virtuosity in rendering a variety of textures: the silk dress, the feathered plumes of the hat, the glaze of the vase and the flawless skin of the sitter.