Cornelius McCarthy British, 1935-2009
Loving Couple, 2001

£1,000

Watercolour on paper
Signed (lower middle)
26cm x 35.5cm (41cm x 48cm framed)

McCarthy was a canonical figure in post-war British figurative art, universally recognized as a premier twentieth-century master of the male form. Nurtured in East London, McCarthy devoted his extensive career almost entirely to documenting the masculine physique. He captured powerful male encounters, intense psychological intimacies, and the complexities of modern queer identity. (Provenance: this work was in the personal collection of the artist Michael Leonard (British 1933-2023)).