Moonlight, Trearddur Bay sold I was delighted to find

I was delighted to find these two portraits tucked away in a country saleroom during the first lockdown for something of a steal

They began a long affair

where Aphrodite's head is peeking over the top of a giant seashell

A proponent both as a critic and painter of the American realist school he must have enjoyed the irony of winning second prize to Picasso’s first at the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930

His mastery of these different disciplines fills me with admiration and annoyance in equal measure

Moonlight, Trearddur Bay sold I was delighted to findThis painting is in our Cecil Court gallery