Adolescence
Gerald Brockhurst's "Adolescence", a seemingly innocent, although highly sensual print, became one of the most important, influential and familiar erotic icons of the 1930s. Few of its admirers, however, could have known the true background to the image.
The model for the image was Dorette Woodward, the artist's fifteen year-old mistress, who was living with the virtuoso etcher at the time. Along with Brockhurst's wife and sister-in-law, she later became involved in Brockhurst's scandalous and acrimonious 1940 divorce.
The original is now priced far beyond the reach of most collectors, and has fetched more than £10,000 at Christie's auction rooms.
Adolescence
Product Specifications
Size: 340x248mm.
Images: Black & white lithographic print, limited to 2500 numbered copies
Available in the following editions
Unframed: Unframed print presented in card folder
£35.00
Framed: Framed print mounted on lilac-grey card in black frame
£65.00
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