Dick and Belle at Concert Touche

(569)
1920
St. Tropez, France
Watercolor and pencil on paper
15 x 19 in. (38.1 x 48.3 cm)
Inscribed, signed, inscribed, dated lower left:
"To Dick Parmenter / E W Dickinson / St. Tropez 1920"
unknown

Notes

Painted in St. Tropez, France, in April or May as a gift to the Parmenters (journal). Dick (Richard) and Belle (Isabella) are portrayed at left as newlyweds attending a Concert Touche at which they are so absorbed embracing that they neither hear the music nor see the fully displayed nude. Nor do they see the newspaper of the man immediately to their right which reads: "Petit Journal / Paris / Parmenter / Gagner / Loterie" [Parmenter Wins Lottery]. Dick and ED became fast friends when they met January 3 at the Closerie de Lilas, Paris.

Provenance

Vance Jordan Fine Art, Inc.
unknown

Exhibition History

1986 James Graham & Sons: Edwin Dickinson, 1891-1978, Rare Perspectives, as "Concert Touche, Paris"