Study of a Girl Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot . Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot 1886–1911 Study of a Girl   c.1910 Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper391 x 285 mm  Purchased (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1927N04229 This monochrome study in graphite washed with brown watercolour depicts the intimate setting of a bedroom at night. A woman enshrouded in the folds of a nightgown, long hair flowing loosely, cradles her upturned face in seeming anguish. Rendered in a heavy chiaroscuro leaving some white areas of the paper entirely blank, Lightfoot’s emotionally intense figure composition has more in common with European symbolists such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes than his Camden Town Group contemporaries.
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Study of a Girl

Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot

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Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot 1886–1911
Study of a Girl   c.1910 
Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper
391 x 285 mm  Purchased (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1927
N04229
This monochrome study in graphite washed with brown watercolour depicts the intimate setting of a bedroom at night. A woman enshrouded in the folds of a nightgown, long hair flowing loosely, cradles her upturned face in seeming anguish. Rendered in a heavy chiaroscuro leaving some white areas of the paper entirely blank, Lightfoot’s emotionally intense figure composition has more in common with European symbolists such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes than his Camden Town Group contemporaries.

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