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An atmospheric and accomplished studio interior oil on canvas with painterly blue and brown harmonies - signed and dated 1949 by English working class painter, D R Pittuck (1911-1993).
Pittuck had associations with Oxford and also the North West. He studied at the Ruskin and has works in the Ashomlean. Around the time of completing this work he took up a post as Head of Art at an Independent school in Country Durham and he subsequently exhibited along with other avant-garde artists in the North West.
Studio interiors are normally interesting works with an autobiographic, self-reflexive and philosophic quality - this one describes the modest "vie de Boheme" of the artist, his single armchair, single table with sketchbook and oil lamp. There is a work on easel describing an ordinary street corner looking like a villa terrace in Cheltenham Spa and photograph of a woman in bonnet on the mantelpiece (his mother? sweetheart?....)
It's rather English and everyday like a Euston Road School interior but without the chromatic claustrophobia of Gilman or the discontented ennui of Sickert. Here there is a sense of resignation and pleasure in the moment. The content of representations within a painting (take a Vermeer for example),a map, a mirror, a portrait, can commentate thematically - here rather differently it is the very lack of disclosure that matters, the machinations of the brain, the framings of the imagination, are losing definition as evening falls, we can't make them out, there is a shut book, an unlit lamp, the room settles into a "blue" moment that as a representation of the English 'mise-en-scene' is real and warm and far from melancholy.
English c.1940s
H: 42cm (16.5in)
W: 67cm (26.4in)
D: 1.5cm (0.6in)
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