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Property from the Collection of Lord and Lady Attenborough

Gwen John

Seated Nude

Auction Closed

November 23, 02:38 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Lord and Lady Attenborough

Gwen John

1876 - 1939

Seated Nude


oil on canvas

unframed: 44.5 by 34.5cm.; 17½ by 13½in.

framed: 62.5 by 52.5cm.; 24½ by 20¾in.

Executed circa 1923-24.


Kindly note that the present work has requested by Pallant House Gallery for the exhibition 'Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris' from May to October 2023.

The Estate of the Artist, where acquired by John Quinn, New York, circa March 1924
Acquired from the above by the American Art Galleries, circa 1927
Acquired from the above by Julia Quinn Anderson, and thence by descent to Thomas F. Conroy
Browse & Darby, London, where acquired by Richard Attenborough, December 1986, and thence by descent to the present owner
New York, Davis & Long Company, Gwen John: A Retrospective Exhibition, 14 October - 1 November 1975, no. 11
California, Stanford University Museum of Art, Gwen John: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of John Quinn & Others, 27 April - 27 June 1982, no. 13
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Gwen John: An Interior Life, 12 September - 3 November 1985, no. 46
London, Tate Britain, Gwen John and Augustus John, 29 September 2004 - 9 January 2005, no. 118
Judith Zilczer (ed.), 'The Noble Buyer': John Quinn: Patron of the Avant-Garde (exh. cat.), Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., 1978, p. 167
Cecily Langdale, Gwen John, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987, no. 128, p. 172, illustrated pl. 118