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Gwen John
1876 - 1939
Mère Poussepin
oil on canvas
unframed: 61 by 38cm.; 24 by 15in.
framed: 79 by 54.5cm.; 31 by 21½in.
Executed probably in the late 1910s.
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Matthiesen Gallery, London, where acquired by Hugo Pitman by 1946 and thence by family descent to the present owner
John Rothenstein, Modern English Painters, St. Martin Press, New York, p. 173
Cecily Langdale, Gwen John With a Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987, no. 54, illustrated pl. 207
London, Matthiesen Gallery, 1946, no. 32 (as The Same Sitter, Her Hands Folded in Her Lap)
London, Arts Council Gallery, Gwen John, 26 January - 2 March 1968, no. 24
New York, Davis & Long Company, Gwen John: A Retrospective Exhibition, 14 October - 1 November 1975, no. 20