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The “Alter Realist” composition integrates two salient aspects; namely the classical statuary
and the Rose Garden’s central feature of the Water Fountain.
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.
FG 139842
‘Alter Realism’ - ‘The Rose Garden’
Canvas: 30x60 inches
