circa 1957

24 x 20 in.
50.5 x 61 cm.
Oil on board
Signed, FAIRLEY (twice) top and bottom right

Verso:

Francis Sparshot
ca. 1957
Barker Fairley

Comment:

F.E. Sparshot was born in England in 1926 and attended Oxford
University. From 1950 he taught philosophy and classics at Victoria
College, University of Toronto. The author of many books on ethics,
aesthetics, and poetry. His best known work is "The Structure of
Aesthetics," University of Toronto Press, 1963.

This classicizing portrait shows both the subject and the portraitist paying
homage to another Englishman, and sometime resident in Toronto -
Wyndham Lewis.

References:

EYE OF THE INTELLECT
BARKER FAIRLEY
PORTRAITS OF HIS COLLEAGUES

Erindale Campus Art Gallery
University of Toronto in Mississauga
October-November 1987
Catalogue #9, illustrated full page

Provenance:

Collection of Nan Fairley

Comment:

The best book on Barker Fairley portraits is BARKER FAIRLEY
PORTRAITS, Methuen, Toronto, 1981.

With a text by the Artist; Edited with a Introduction by Gary Michael Dault.