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Lot 173
Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, K.C.V.O., P.R.A., R.H.A. (1879-1972)
Burmese dancing girl
Closed4 June 2014
Price Realised
GBP 3,750
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Specialist note
Somerset Maugham wrote of Kelly’s paintings:
‘His Burmese dancers… have a strange impenetrability, their gestures are enigmatic and yet significant, they are charming and yet there is something curiously hieratic in their manner; with a sure instinct and with a more definite feeling for decoration than is possible in a portrait. Mr Kelly has given us the character of the East as we of our generation see it’ (W.S. Maugham, A Student of Character, 1914, pp. 30-31, 36.)
‘His Burmese dancers… have a strange impenetrability, their gestures are enigmatic and yet significant, they are charming and yet there is something curiously hieratic in their manner; with a sure instinct and with a more definite feeling for decoration than is possible in a portrait. Mr Kelly has given us the character of the East as we of our generation see it’ (W.S. Maugham, A Student of Character, 1914, pp. 30-31, 36.)