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Rembrandt
A Woman Bathing in a Stream (Hendrijke Stoffels?), 1654, National Gallery of Art, London
Rembrandt
A Woman Bathing in a Stream (Hendrijke Stoffels?), 1654, National Gallery of Art, London
Ralph Brown British, 1928-2013
Woman Bathing, 1960
Bronze
36 x 14 x 16 cm
14 1/8 x 5 1/2 x 6 1/4 in
14 1/8 x 5 1/2 x 6 1/4 in
Edition 2 of 9
Further images
Much like Rembrandt’s painting 'A Women Bathing in A Stream', on which this piece is inspired, Brown’s ‘Woman Bathing’ captures a solitary figure in a private moment. The distinctive ‘slit’...
Much like Rembrandt’s painting 'A Women Bathing in A Stream', on which this piece is inspired, Brown’s ‘Woman Bathing’ captures a solitary figure in a private moment. The distinctive ‘slit’ through this piece is a distinguishing indicator of Brown’s figurative work of the 1950s and 1960s and gives the work a potentially dark and sadistic feel which confront its viewer. This is furthered by the rough texture and surface of the bronze which resembles rock fissures and clefts.
Provenance
From the artist's estate
Exhibitions
Masterpiece 2018, PL; Ralph Brown & the Figure in the 50s and 60s, 2016, PL; Ralph Brown A Memorial Exhibition, 2014; Ralph Brown at Eighty: The Early Decades Revisited, 2009, PLLiterature
Social, Savage, Sensual; The Sculpture of Ralph Brown, By Gillian Whiteley, 2009; Ralph Brown & the Figure in the 50s and 60s, 2016, PL; Ralph Brown A Memorial Exhibition, 2014; Ralph Brown at Eighty: The Early Decades Revisited, 2009, PL
Publications
Social, Savage, Sensual; The Sculpture of Ralph Brown, By Gillian Whiteley, 2009; Ralph Brown & the Figure in the 50s and 60s, 2016, PL; Ralph Brown A Memorial Exhibition, 2014; Ralph Brown at Eighty: The Early Decades Revisited, 2009, PL