Lovers in a graveyard

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George Warner Allen (1916-1988)
Lovers in a graveyard
signed 'G. Warner A.' (upper left)
pencil and watercolour and bodycolour, on paper
5½ x 5½ in. (14 x 14 cm.)

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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

George Warner Allen's paintings of English pastoral idylls led critics to describe him as a Neo-Romantic artist. The strong colour contrasts in the figures and the chromatic intensity of this work are hallmarks evident in Allen's later paintings such as Picnic at Wittenham, 1947-48 (Tate, London).

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