Robert Baker (1909 - 1992), oil on panel, students preparing...

Hammer

£3,000

Robert Baker (1909 - 1992), oil on panel, students preparing for theatrical performance, early 1930s, unsigned, 135cm x 94cm, in arch-top wooden frame. Baker was given a commission in the early 1930s instigated by the political insider Thomas Jones to paint murals at The Welsh Working Mans College, Coleg Harlach. The murals produced in situ in the dining hall, consisted of portraits of Welsh types painted on piers projecting into the room between which Baker created 2 landscape panoramas. A second series of murals consisted of 11 detachable pictures showed scenes from the daily life of the school, based on the loose narrative sequence of the young miner leaving home to go to the college and his subsequent experience there. This panel which probably includes a self-portrait of the artist, seated, putting on make-up, shows elements of a raised stage in the foreground and an animated background scene. Provenance: De'accessioned from Coleg Harlach in 2013, originally sold October 2015 with assistance from Liss Fine Art in cataloging the work

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In good condition