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Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein

Glyn Warren Philpot

Figures in a Landscape

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Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein

Glyn Warren Philpot

British 1884 - 1937

Figures in a Landscape


oil on canvas

canvas: 33 ⅞ by 44 ⅛ in.; 86 by 112.1 cm

With Rowley Gallery, London (according to label on reverse)

Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7 November 1990, lot 86

Where acquired by the present owner

Brighton, Autumn Exhibition, 1938

This work belongs to a series of allegorical nude groups which the artist painted in the early 1920's (see A.C. Sewter, Glyn Philpot, 1884-1937, London 1951, pl. 39, Journey of the Spirit for a comparison, and Robin Gibson, Glyn Philpot 1884-1937, Edwardian Aesthete to Thirties Modernist, National Portrait Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 1984-1985, note to cat. no. 23).