Woman and Suspended Man

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Surreal figure composition of a large, pale grey female head on the left, with frontal eyes and side profile; small half male torso to the right with legs and hips depicted, with two large eyes suspended from a thin, jagged horizontal line above. This line, and the one mirroring it above, could be understood as a horizon line or a silhouetted line of a mountinous region. This lower torso is positioned within a grey rectangle from which emerges a large abstracted pointing arm with a bulbous wrist in white, reaching towards and piercing a rectangle of dark grey. There is a small, free-floating single leg in the background between the two main figurative motifs. The background is depicted in flat grey.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

Woman and Suspended Man

Date

1939

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 53 x W 79 cm

Accession number

1968.173

Acquisition method

gift from Mrs Marianne Haile, 1968

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed: brc: 9. ii 39

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