Original drawing by the listes portrait artist Philip Naviasky ARCA (1894 - 1983), created circa 1930.

Portrait of a girl wearing a winter coat with fur collar and cuffs - this is a study of Minnie, who Naviasky later produced a finished portrait of in oils

Signed lower right.

Charcoal on paper. In a modern stained wood frame with single mount, glazed.

Drawing in poor condition, but still has great charm about it. The sheet is water stained and has been stuck down on card at some point, resulting in numerous creases and a couple of small losses to the paper (see photos). Frame in sound condition, with some slight nicks and scratches, mount clean (see photos). As always, condition is already reflected in the price.

Image 56cm x 44.5cm, frame 72cm x 60.5cm.

Delivered ready to hang.

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Philip Naviasky ARCA 1894 – 1983

English landscape and figure painter in oils and watercolours, teacher.

Philip Naviasky was born on 14^th January 1884 in Leeds to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents Barnet Naviasky (born Berel Neviazhsky) and Fanny (née Levinson). He won a scholarship to the Leeds School of Fine Arts in 1907. In 1912, he was the youngest ever student accepted into the Royal Academy school. He went on to win a Royal Exhibition award and to study at the Royal College of Art, after which he spent his career in Leeds as an artist and art teacher at Leeds College of Art. He died on 19^th June 1983.

Naviasky exhibited extensively in the principal London galleries and the provinces, first showing at the Royal Academy in 1914, when he was just 20 years old. He worked widely in Yorkshire as well as abroad in Spain, the south of France, Morocco and elsewhere. Among his portraits were Lord Nuffield - the politicians Ramsay Macdonald and Philip Snowden. As well as the Royal Academy, he showed work at with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and at the Royal Scottish Academy, plus a series of solo shows. In the late 60s he had to stop painting because of failing sight. Galleries in Leeds, Newcastle, Preston and Stoke-on-Trent hold his work.