The Boy At The Window 1983

Boy At The Window

Category: Paintings

Artist: Maggi Hambling

Year of Work: 1983

Media: oil on panel

Size: 60" x 48"

Price on application. Signed on reverse. For further information contact IAP Fine Art, London.

This painting has museum provenance and was shown in the artist's solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 1987. It is featured in the catalogue, with the following text by art critic Paul Bailey:

"In The Boy At the Window 1983", Maggi Hambling captures a strange state of radiance. The boy is simple-minded, but not desperately so. He is looking down, as he does every day, on the busy traffic thundering along the main road. The spectacle delights him, and causes him to laugh and jabber. His hands, too, are giving expression to his joy. The tenderness of perception displayed here is one of the qualities I most admire in Hambling's work. Mental retardation, like the plight of the aged, is a subject that invites a particularly maudlin kind of sentimentality, which is wholly avoided in this touching picture."

Boy At the Window (Detail)

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