Augustus John, O.M., R.A.

P. & D. Colnaghi, London
C.N. Barlow, Esq.

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Drawings and Paintings by Augustus John, 1948, no.105, details untraced (probably).

The work is on wove paper which has not been laid down. The sheet is adhered to the mount by three pieces of tape attached to the reverse along the upper, lower and left edges. There is a spot of staining in the upper right quadrant, and an area of staining within the woman's shirt. The sheet is stained along each edge. Held behind glass and presented within a cream mount in a gilded frame which has sustained some abrasions.
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We are grateful to Rebecca John for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.