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Although known by many as a society portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy, some of Gerald Kelly’s early work is very different; in particular his Burmese oil sketches of 1908-9 have a fluency and exuberance which reflect his experience as an art student in Paris, where he arrived in 1901. He was introduced to Monet, Degas, Sickert and Renoir; he also met Cézanne in Aix-les-Provence. In 1903 Kelly and his friend Somerset Maugham went to see the exhibition at the Galerie Vollard which established the reputation of Gauguin, and Kelly was inspired by Gauguin's exoticism and rich palette. He sailed in the summer of 1908 to Burma, where he was captivated by the people and the landscape, and painted a number of vivid oil sketches.
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Oil on panel
Inscribed on back of panel ‘Sulamani pagoda: twilight / or Sanda-muni? / Jan. – Feb. 1909’, and in a later hand ‘Sulamani pagoda / Mandalay’
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| Dimensions: |
10.50inch wide
8.50inch high
(26.67 cm wide 21.59 cm high)
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