Robin C. Guthrie (1902–1971) - Portrait Of The Young Roy Martin

- Oil on panel. Hand-signed. The model’s identity and details about the work are listed on the *Royal Society of Portrait Painters* (United Kingdom) label affixed to the back. The frame also retains an identification label from the prestigious Macarrón studio in Madrid.

- The young Roy Martin, captured by Robin Guthrie’s melancholic touch, appears in this portrait as the embodiment of a suspended, anachronistic youth: too old to embody the hopeful freshness of the postwar era, yet too young to sink into the lethargy of old age, despite the old-fashioned stiffness of his little formal outfit. His crossed arms—a barrier of defiant modesty—and his lips pursed in a pout of restrained disapproval betray a precocious maturity, forged in the shadow of a devastated Europe. In the golden twilight of the canvas, Roy Martin embodies the paradox of a generation condemned to premature aging, trapped in a purgatory between a maturity that arrived too soon and a youth that refuses to fade away.

- Dimensions of the artwork without frame: 41 x 60 cm / 60 x 79 cm with its exclusive, custom-made frame.