Lot 41: Peter Rose Pulham (1910-1956)

Room with Scaffolding
signed, inscribed and dated 'Peter Rose Pulham/III 1946/Room with Scaffolding' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 28 September 1994, lot 239.
with Victor James, London.

Pulham, a photographer and painter, was born on 26 June 1910 at Hampstead Garden Suburb, London. He studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture 1927-28 and then at Worcester College, Oxford. Pulham was a leading photographer in Britain up until 1938 when he turned to painting. He became inspired by and socialised in surrealist circles throughout the 1930s and 40s.

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