Rex Whistler 1905-1944 British School 20th.Century. Original watercolour drawing. Titled 'The Mother' Signed lower left and right dated 1925. Provenance: Private collection U.K. 20 by 25 cms. Image.
Reginald John 'Rex' Whistler was a highly sucessful painter of Murals, Society portraits, Theatre design, advertising and book illustrations. "A Bright Young Thing" He was killed in action in Normandy in 1944. Perhaps the greatest artistic loss of the War.