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‘Alter Realism’ - ‘The Rose Garden’
‘En plein air’, The “Alter Realist” composition integrates two salient aspects; namely the classical statuary and
the Rose Garden’s central feature of the Water Fountain.
Oil on Panel: 12 x 30 inches
The male and female pedestal busts allude to shared physical attraction . In the centre the
element of water represents life -giving refreshment .
Violet the 8th Duchess commissioned the landscape architect Harold Peto to create the Rose
Garden. Peto was at the time a renowned garden designer working in the fashionable Italian
School aesthetic.
