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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Frank Dobson was an immensely skilful and versatile artist who started out as a painter in Newlyn producing potboilers under a couple of pseudonyms. His achievement as a painter from watercolour landscapes to portraits and work as a war artist is little known and has been insufficiently studied. So it will be a revelation to many to see some of his more brightly coloured pastels and watercolours here. From 1915 he pursued his primary vocation as a sculptor with great verve and accomplishment establishing a reputation as the leading English avant-garde artist in three- dimensions. He was one of the first great sculptors of the Modern Age in this country but his achievement has been overshadowed by those who came after him and in particular by Henry Moore. Although Dobson was widely acknowledged to be the successor of Gaudier-Brzeska whose life was so tragically curtailed in the First World War and although he enjoyed considerable success and wide acclaim in the 1920s and 30s he was nearly 30 before he made his first serious sculpture and nearly 40 before he properly hit his stride. He was decidedly unfortunate in his timing. The War cut right across his development and delayed him by three or four years at a crucial point. (He enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles in 1915 saw action at the Somme and was invalided out of the Army in 1917. It took him time to recover. (LL)