Thursday, June 3, 2010

G F Watts - Love and Death




a study
35.5 x 16.5
painted c. 1870's - 1880's.

One of Watt's most important pictures inspired by the slow, wasting disease of Lord Lothian. There are a number of finished versions. Laege scale pictures are at the Whitworh Gallery, the Tate and in Adelaide, moderately sized ones are in Bristol and Melbourne, and a small one is in Liverpool.

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