Robert Broadley ( 1908-1988 ) Nude Pastel, Watercolour and Pencil Original on Paper SIGNED, DATE

This is an original pastel, watercolour and pencil mixed media work on paper.  The pastel could be charcoal but looks more like black pastel to me.

Signed by the artist, Robert Broadley on bottom left with date 1971.

The mixed media  painting is 50 cm x 33.5 cm and the very good condition double mount is 47 cm x 64 cm.

The painting is loose and not stuck down, only stuck on extreme borders to sides of mount.

Painting is unfaded, in excellent condition, with skilled use of mixed media,  and the double mount is also in very good condition, although there is light foxing on the back of the mount. 

Would look stunning in a modern white frame to bring out the white watercolour gouache highlights.

Robert Broadley was a professional artist, still highly regarded. He was widely exhibited and is widely represented in various galleries and museums.

His work currently sells regularly at top auction houses such as Strauss. The last pastel nude of his to sell there achieved a price of over R7000.

This artist gave up professional golf to become a painter in 1937. He won a competition against top South African artists to paint the Royal Opening of Parliament. He was most famed for his portraiture and at the end of his career concentrated on this and his nude studies such as this one in his characteristic loose impressionistic style. ( biographical details are all  from Art and Artists of South Africa by Esme Berman ).