A portrait of Delius unveiled before a group of civic dignitaries, around the time of its completion in the early 1930s
In storage at Cartwright Hall in Bradford is a very special portrait of Delius.
Our picture shows its unveiling before a group of civic dignitaries, around the time of its completion in the early 1930s.
It was painted by Sir James Gunn, (1893–1964), a Glasgow-born portrait painter, and depicts the composer, blind and frail, close to his death in 1934. Gunn painted the portrait after making a series of sketches of Delius in his final years.
The portrait was the public's choice as ‘picture of the year’ at the Royal Academy in 1933. Perhaps this is the year it should be brought out of storage and put on display in Bradford to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Delius’s birth?
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