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§ Jack Leslie Fairhurst ARCA (British 1905-1989)
Self-Portrait oil on board 46 x 35cm

Footnote: The youngest son of artist and illustrator Enoch Fairhurst, Suffolk artist Jack Leslie Fairhurst was born in 1905 in Nunhead, London. After training under Randolph Schwab, Michael Rothenstein and Albert Rutherston at the Camberwell School of Art between 1919 and 1923, Fairhurst held several teaching posts in London and achieved relative success exhibiting at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, before later moving to Woodbridge, Suffolk, where he would continue to paint until his death in 1989. Principally remembered as a portrait artist, the present lot, likely executed in the mid-1920s, depicts the artist as a young man and illustrates the increasingly pervasive influence of modernism, in both fashion and portraiture.

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