Andre Eglevsky (1937) Glyn Philpot Size:70x100 cm / 28x40″ story-filled piece to their home

story-filled piece to their home

sharp intent

The Met records it as watercolour and graphite on off-white wove paper

making even a quiet drawing like this feel charged: intimate

and that you are home to receive your order/able to pick it up at the post office

Andre Eglevsky (1937) Glyn Philpot Size:70x100 cm / 28x40″ story-filled piece to their homePainted in Philpots final year, this portrait catches Andr Eglevsky, the Russian born Ballet Russe dancer, as pure line, poise and kinetic potential. Eglevsky was not a known lover, but a charged muse: a young male performer whose discipline turns the body into art. Philpots late portraits moved away from society commissions toward friends, performers and intimate male subjects, at a time when his modern, sexually suggestive work unsettled British