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This work vividly recalls the world of the 1920s: for the fortunate few it was a golden age of parties and pleasure champagne and fancy dress, bobbed hair and ballgowns. One can almost hear the jazzy dance music in the background. Before the First World War Purvis had studied in Glasgow, travelled in Italy and taught drawing in Dundee. Although his subject was a modern one, his approach to it was grounded in earlier art; neither a true portrait, nor a painting telling a story, this is, in effect, the twentieth-century equivalent of the ‘fancy picture’ of earlier times.

The Fleming Collection

London

Title

The Parasol and the Pierrot

Date

1922

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 91.4 x W 71.1 cm

Accession number

775

Work type

Painting

The Fleming Collection

14 Buckingham Street, London, Greater London WC2N 6DF England

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Artist or maker

John Milne Purvis

1885–1961

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