Lot 136: John Bromfield Gay Rees (1912-1965)

Death Comes to Us All
signed and dated 'Bromfield Rees/7.V.42' (lower left)
pencil, ink and watercolour
26 3/4 x 20 1/4 in. (68 x 53 cm.)

London, Michael Parkin Gallery, J.B.G Rees - Portrait of an Artist, May 1989, no. 16.
Aldeburgh, Peter Pears Gallery, Festival Exibition, June 2006, no. 24.

Purchased by the present owner at the 1989 exhibition.

Rees won a scholarship to the Royal Academy schools where from 1932 to 1939 he was a contemporary of William Scott and was taught by Sir Thomas Monnington. His poor nervous health meant he was in need of constant supervision from 1935 onwards.

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