20th Century British Art

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Lot 34
  • 34

Christopher Wood 1901-1930

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Christopher Wood
  • girl with a parrot
  • oil on canvas
  • 72.5 by 59.5cm., 28½ by 23½in.

Provenance

Redfern Gallery, London

Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Christopher Wood: The First Retrospective Exhibition since 1938, 1st April - 8th May 1959, no.95 (wherein dated 1927);
London, Redfern Gallery, Christopher Wood 1901-1930, November 1965, no.78 (wherein dated 1926).

Catalogue Note

Painted 1926-27, the present work demonstrates the very distinctive outlined figural style that Wood developed during that period. It appears in a number of works, mostly portraits, such as Portrait of J.A.Gandrillas (Port Elizabeth, King George VI Art Gallery) and Jean Burgoint with Siamese Cat (Cambridge, Kettle's Yard) and may relate to his awareness of the paintings of Modigliani, particularly in the oval shaped stylised faces. The relatively limited but expressive palette is also similar to a number of genre paintings Wood executed at the time, such as Card Players, Falmouth (Private Collection). However, the costume of the sitter and the pose by what appears to be a window ledge would seem to draw on much older examples, that of the renaissance masters of Italy and the School of Fontainebleau. 

The present work is listed as no.252a in the Christopher Wood catalogue.