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43
STUDIES of a MALE NUDE
1917
CHARLES
HASLEWOOD SHANNON, R.A.
1863 - 1937
Black,
white and red chalk on grey paper, 40.6 x 28.6 (16 x 11.25)
Signed
and dated, C.S. 1917 (lower left, in red) and inscribed TO
CECIL FRENCH from C.S. (lower left, in pencil).
Inscribed,
verso, on backboard, Study for The Breakwater/ 1917/ C.H.Shannon.
Provenance:
gift of the artist to Cecil French.
A
naked seated man with face to left, left leg bent, right extended.
In the lower right is a study of a naked back, head leaning
to right, arms bent.
The
painting for which this is a study has not been traced. Shannon
published a colour litho-graph of The Breakwater in
1906.
Both
this study and that for a Fan, above, reflect Shannon's almost
obsessive interest in the sea, swimmers, boats and bathing,
which appears in his work from the mid 1890s, when he designed
the lithograph of Shell-gatherers (1894) and painted
Salt Water (1902), until almost 1920, with The Incoming
Tide and The Pursuit (both 1918).
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