At The Dressing Table 20th Century Continental School falls into no easy category

falls into no easy category

lectured at Goldsmiths and was on the staff of Brighton College of Art

1950s painting by 20th century Swedish artist

“The art of Guy Roddon

There he studied under the legendary Henry Tonks

At The Dressing Table 20th Century Continental School falls into no easy categoryQuite a dramatic domestic genre piece, a young girl at her toilette by a Continental painter working between the wars. The wonderful detail in the Chinese vase and the classical roundels behind are clever, but the black drapery in the fore ground is the artist simply showing off. A large and serious academic workpossibly the artists daughterthere certainly seems to be an intimacy between the painter and subject. The gilt gesso frame is period but