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Claude Maurice Rogers 1907-1979
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Description
- Claude Maurice Rogers
- Self Portrait
- signed and dated 37
- oil on canvas
- 81 by 46cm., 32 by 18in.
Exhibited
Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, Claude Rogers 1907-1979, 1985, no.4;
London, Ben Uri Art Society, Claude Rogers: Paintings & Drawings, 1992, cat.no.9, illustrated in colour in the exhibition catalogue, p.5.
London, Ben Uri Art Society, Claude Rogers: Paintings & Drawings, 1992, cat.no.9, illustrated in colour in the exhibition catalogue, p.5.
Literature
Jenny Pery, The Affectionate Eye: The Life of Claude Rogers, Sansom & Co., Bristol, 1995, p.83.
Catalogue Note
Painted at Rodwell House, Baylham, Suffolk in the summer of 1937, while staying with Helen Anrep during his convalescence from a bout of pneumonia, Rogers here appears unusually lean. Having married earlier in the year and produced some significant paintings, his illness was to prevent him becoming involved in the preparations for the opening of the School of Drawing and Painting at 12, Fitzroy Street, and in a note to Coldstream he mentions that ‘lying in bed here it gives me much quiet satisfaction to think how, in busy Hampstead, the business of measuring points is going steadily forward’ (op.cit., p.83).