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Leslie Hurry

1909–1978

This Extraordinary Year, 1945 1944–5
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Biography

Leslie George Hurry (10 February 1909– 20 November 1978) was a British artist and set designer for ballet, theatre and opera.

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Neo-romanticism

Artworks

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  • Medea’s House, Corinth

    Leslie Hurry
    1948
  • A Land Unvisited

    Leslie Hurry
    1940
  • The Courtesan

    Leslie Hurry
    1941
  • Grace Sholto Douglas

    Leslie Hurry
    1940
  • Self-Portrait

    Leslie Hurry
    1944
  • This Extraordinary Year, 1945

    Leslie Hurry
    1944–5

Artist as subject

  • Self-Portrait

    Leslie Hurry
    1944

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