16 January 2018

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst. Zeitgeist, ca. 1935 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 111.8 x 88.9 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, December 2015. The artist’s wife. Otherworldly elegance. Impatient, emancipated. Painted right after ‘Jeunesse DorĂ©e. It seems the two were in a tense relationship with the occasional arguments. It is said Brockhurst attacked this painting with a knife, leaving visible slashes in the canvas. 

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