This coherent collection of 17 works by twentieth-century British artists consists mostly of works on paper and reflects Professor Holmes' taste for figurative work in the Neo-Romantic style prevalent during the war and in the post-war decade, as found for example in John Minton's Liverpool I942, and Keith Vaughan's 'Red Foreshore with Figures',
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Title of artwork, date
Man with Shears, 1946
Date supported
1992
Medium and material
Pen, ink, charcoal & gouache
Dimensions
38 x 30 cm
Gifted by
Robert Holmes
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