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Description: | 99.0 x 81.0 s. t.r. "herman" CRE HERMAN, Josef; (Polish; b.1911) The sitter was the Marshall Professor of French at G.U. 1937-1965, who played a role in nominating Mark Chagall for an honorary degree from the University (the artist received his honorary degree in 1959). In Herman's own words (letter fo 12 March 1982): "At the time I painted quite a few portraits of friends or people who commissioned a "portrait". I used a technique which enabled me to paint very fast: I put a thick layer of guesso on paper and painted it with gouache on tempera or what can be called mixed media. I took very few sittings - most of these portraits can be done partly from the sitter and partly from memory. I trust I took no more than two sittings for this portrait of Alan - so called likenesses presented no problem, what I was after was something which is usually referred to as "painterly qualities" and a "lively brush work". | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : FIGURE : MALE : UNIVERSITY : PROFESSOR : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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