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Property from the Estate of Martin R. Davies, Bristol

John William Godward

At the Thermae

Auction Closed

December 7, 01:32 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Martin R. Davies, Bristol


John William Godward

British

1861 - 1922

At the Thermae


signed and dated J.W. Godward 1909 lower left

oil on canvas

Unframed: 77 by 38.5cm., 30¼ by 15¼in.

Framed: 95 by 55cm., 37½ by 21¾in.

Acquired from the artist by Eugene Cremetti, London, 2 February 1909

Joseph's World

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1991, lot 96

Richard Green Fine Paintings, London, where purchased 29 January 1992 by Martin R. Davies, Bristol

Bristol, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Imagining Rome - British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century, 1996, no. 63, as A Roman Woman

Michael Liversidge and Catherine Edwards (eds.), Imagining Rome - British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century, London, 1996, pp. 167-168, illustrated in colour p.167

Vern Grosvenor Swanson, John William Godward - The Eclipse of Classicism, 1997, pp. 89, 222-223, cat.no.1909.4, illustrated in colour p. 90, colour plate 70

Vern Grosvenor Swanson, J.W. Godward 1861-1922 - The Eclipse of Classicism, 2018, pp. 113, 298, cat.no.1909.4, illustrated in colour p. 112, colour plate 113