Glyn Warren Philpot, R.A British, 1884-1937
Study of a Man’s Shoulder, c.1920

£3,000

Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper
19cm × 15cm (32cm × 27cm framed)

First exhibiting at the RA in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 1923. Like many artists of his generation, he enjoyed a comfortable income from portraiture, which enabled him to paint less commercially successful and perhaps more personal subjects. His interest in the male nude and portraits of young men – thought to be friends, models and lovers – portrays his gradual acceptance and expression of his own homosexuality. Some of these later works were considered controversial because of their homosexual imagery. He was the subject of major exhibition at the Pallant House Gallery in 2022.