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George Frederic Watts OM RA (British, 1817 – 1904).
Get thee beyond me, Satan.
Red chalk on paper.
10.5/8 x 8.1/2 in. (27 x 21.5 cm.).
Provenance: From the private estate of David Loshak, writer, lecturer, professor of Art History, and art collector. [Author of 'George Frederic Watts 1817-1904', 'The Art of Thomas Girtin', and 'Munch', written in Danish and translation].; Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 14 Dec. 2016, lot 13 (part).; Private Collection, UK.
Literature: Veronica Franklin Gould, 'G. F. Watts. The Last Great Victorian’, New Haven & London, 2004, p.22.
Note: Watts painted the massive, sculptural, fiery figure of Satan in 1847, in preparation for fresco. The critic John Ruskin wrote ‘don’t understand the new picture, but it is glorious, and Satan has his cheekbone all right.’ Satan was a moral and, by association with Job, social protest against greed and the tyranny of the rich over the poor. Watts made a series of delicate red chalk drawings from his most important pictures for exhibition by William Agnew in 1891.
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