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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 126. GWEN JOHN | BUST-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF YOUNG WOMAN IN PINAFORE.

Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw

GWEN JOHN | BUST-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF YOUNG WOMAN IN PINAFORE

Lot Closed

September 16, 03:04 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw

GWEN JOHN

1876-1939

BUST-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF YOUNG WOMAN IN PINAFORE


stamped with Estate stamp

pencil on paper

unframed: 16 by 12.5cm.; 6¼ by 4¾in.

framed: 33.5 by 29.5cm.; 13¼ by 11½in.

Executed circa 1920.


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Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owners

The sitter in the present work is known as the convalescent model; her true identity is unknown but she was a neighbour of John's in Meudon and sat for her on a number of occasions. She was the model for a work of circa 1918-22 called Girl with a Cat (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) where she sits in a simliar pose to the present drawing and appears to be wearing the same dress.


We are grateful to Cecily Langdale for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.