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Brockhurst met Kathleen Woodward in 1927, when she was modelling at the Royal Academy schools where he was a visiting professor. He renamed her Dorette, and she became his key muse, and later his second wife. In 1932 and 1933 he made a series of drawings, paintings and prints of her, aiming to form an ideal image of 'young womanhood for the modern age', and it seems likely that the present drawing is a study related to that project.
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The sheet is not laid down but is taped at the upper edge into an acidic mount from which we would advise removal. There is some slight discolouration and surface dirt to the outer edges of the paper (overmounted), and there are a few very small scattered foxmarks in places. The medium is fresh and strong and the sheet reads well.