Godfrey Miller (Godfrey Clive Miller) (1893-1964)

Seated figure facing towards the front, c. 1957

Stamped with John Henshaw’s studio stamp of Godfrey Miller’s estate and numbered “64”

Pencil on buff coloured paper

Size: (image within the window mount) 37.7 x 25.2 cm; (frame) 64.3 x 49.9 cm

Condition: the sheet is in very good condition; the timber frame is unvarnished and has minor signs of its age (i.e. yellow oxidisation, insect specks and dustiness) and the backing sheet should be replaced.

I am selling this framed, original, museum-quality life-class drawing by Godfrey Miller for [deleted] including postage and handling to anywhere in the world.

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This drawing has been sold

This drawing showcases Miller’s view of the tensions, relationships of angles and critical shifts of weight and mass in a figure. Where Miller perceived the strongest tensions of compression and weight in the figure, he invariably pressed harder on the pencil to create a visual analogue for the model’s physical experiences through dark emphatic lines. By contrast, where Miller saw a lessening of the same tensions his marks become softer and more like scribble.

Artists who have engaged in life-class sessions have all made—or should have made—sketches like this where their understanding of the model’s physical experience of maintaining balance in a pose is translated into expressive marks. This is an artist’s drawing made for artists. It was intended to be a work of self-exploration and focused commitment to thinking and feeling rather that as drawing designed to charm a viewer and the commercial market.