20th Century British and Irish Art

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Lot 13
  • 13

Gwen John, 1876-1939

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gwen John
  • three quarter back view of an old lady in grey
  • stamped with signature
  • pencil, watercolour and gouache
  • 17.5x13.5cm.; 7x5¼in.

Exhibited

London, Matthiesen Gallery, Gwen John Memorial Exhibition, 1946, no.178 (EJ 109)

Catalogue Note

The present work depicts Mademoiselle Pouvereau who was a parishioner of Meudon church and the subject of several watercolours by the artist. In an undated draft to Véra Oumançoff, she wrote, 'J'ai pensé que je suis peut-etre injuste pour le mérite des nouveaux tableaux du Chemin de la Croix si j'ai demandé à Mlle Pouvreau si ils sont beaux. Non elle a dit ils ne sont pas beaux, mais fines'. (quoted in Cecily Langdale, Gwen John, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987, p.199).