Deux Landaises (Evening)
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst British
Sitter Anaïs Folin Brockhurst French
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Brockhurst depicts his wife Anaïs having her hair braided by her sister Marguerite Folin. In this final state the print's earlier title "Evening" has been burnished out of the plate. The new title, "Deux Landaises," evokes the women's hometown of Landes in Aquitaine, southwestern France. The artist based the print on a graphite drawing commissioned by "Vanity Fair" in 1920 that did not appear in the magazine until 1927. Between 1920 and 1933 Brockhurst published a series of masterful etchings and drypoints (with one later addition in 1942), then focused on portrait painting. He often showed Anaïs wearing richly ornamented garments, but here emphasizes her luxuriant hair, echoing precedents by Rembrandt and Whistler.
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