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A Third and final Catalogue of Drawings by Herbert Draper (1864 - 1920). (3)

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The exhibition catalogue for the Julian Hartnoll Gallery:

"A Third and final Catalogue of Drawings by Herbert Draper (1864 - 1920). Autumn 2003"

This catalogue comprises a Foreword by Julian Hartnoll and an annotated catalogue. Thirty nine works are illustrated in colour and black and white. 39 pages. Octavo. It is one of three Draper exhibition catalogues available here.

This catalogue is new, in printer's wrappers. The reproductions are particularly fine.

Draper was a painter of powerful and sensuous imaginative works who enjoyed considerable success around 1900. In the last 15 years his work has found a new audience, substantially increased by Simon Toll's 2003 monograph and catalogue raisonnée, which closes with the following summary of the painter's rediscovery and importance to the art of the period:

"In 2001, the centenary of the death of Queen Victoria, the Tate Gallery included Ulysses and the Sirens, The Gates of Dawn, and The Lament for Icarus in its exhibition devoted to the Victorian nude. The Julian Hartnoll Gallery hosted the second exhibition of drawings by Draper in 2001.
Herbert Draper was one of the finest painters of nudes in the last years of Victoria's reign. As we begin a new century, we are more able to reassess the prejudices and snobbery of some of the last."

Price: £7.00

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