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John Moody (1906 - 1993)
The quarter seated nude in bathing costume
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John Moody (1906 - 1993)
Signed and inscribed on reverse, Houlgate, 11 Sept 26
Oil on board, 6 1/2  x  8 3/4 in. (16 x 22 cm.)
Size:
Height – 16cm x Width – 22cm
John Moody’s painting spree
in Houlgate (Calvados Dept of Normandy) was motivated by
light. His paintings on both sides of the Channel coasts around this
time are literally filled by light – huge skies, seascapes, white cliffs and
rolling sand dunes. You are made to feel the rush of air, the smell of the sea
and the reflection of light off water. He was 20 in 1926 when the Houlgate
sketches were undertaken. Two years later his Knocke series, on the Belgian
coast, retain similar characteristics whilst adopting  a slightly surreal
imagery.
‘Jack,’ as he was better
known, took every opportunity to paint and draw when he was
young,¬†causing his parents to wonder if he’d ever find a way to earn any
money. A letter from a family friend in December 1926 cautions
him on life as an artist: "I am very interested in seeing that you have taken up
lettering and I congratulate you on your success. I think you have done a wise
and practical thing in taking up commercial art, but it would be a pity if you
did nothing else. At the start I am afraid you can’t live on doing work that
will live, but you may live on doing work that will not live."
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After training at the Royal Academy Schools and working from a studio offered to him by Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) and Edward Bawden (1903 – 1989), by the 1930’s, Moody was exhibiting at a variety of London venues and teaching at Wimbledon School of Art; he also became a founder member of the New Kingston Group of painters. Fascinated by the Theatre he was later well known as an opera producer, commissioning stage sets from John Piper and Robert Medley.
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