BOXALL, Arthur d'Auvergne.
Avignon.
1928.
Pencil drawing, 236 x 367 mm; fine, mounted.
A detailed landscape drawing by the Australian artist Arthur d'Auvergne Boxall (1895-1944).
The skilfully rendered landscape is from the outside of the French commune Avignon. The drawing was produced in the years that Boxall exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art, London and the Paris Salon. Boxall spent some time in England studying at the Slade School of Fine Arts where he was awarded several prises for his landscape depictions which allowed him to travel through Europe, returning to Australia in 1930.
Boxall, who gave up architecture to become an artist, reveals this training in drawings such as this with his meticulous care for detail and structure.
The drawing is inscribed 'To my good friend Roy Davies'.
