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DENTON WELCH (BRITISH 1915-1948) STILL-LIFE OF FLOWERS IN A VASE signed Denton Welch lower right; oil on panel; 49.5 x 33.5cm; 19 1/2 x 13 1/4in (56 x 40cm; 22 x 15 3/4in framed) Exhibited: London, The Barbican Art Gallery, A Paradise Lost, no. 360 Executed circa 1943-44. Welch was educated at Repton in Derbyshire. After a visit to China, he studied painting at Goldsmiths' School of Art but aged twenty was severely injured in a cycling accident that left him an invalid. This life-changing event led him to write poems, short stories and three largely autobiographical novels composed with a painter's eye for detail: Maiden Voyage (1943), In Youth is Pleasure (1945) and A Voice through a Cloud, the last, like his Journals, published posthumously (1950 & 52) and I Left My Grandfather’s House in 1958 (see lots 321 & 322). He exhibited his paintings regularly with the Leicester Galleries. His detailed and layered compositions tend to be decorative and Neo-romantic in spirit. The present still-life, painted with thick black impasto, and set in a surrealist, almost gothic landscape conjures a typically moody atmosphere.