On Alderney Heath, Dorset

Details

Augustus Edwin John, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)
On Alderney Heath, Dorset
signed 'John' (lower right) and signed again 'John' in pencil (lower right)
oil on panel
12¼ x 16 in. (31.1 x 40.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1911

Provenance

R.A. Hornby, by whom purchased at the 1958 exhibition.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, 19th and 20th Century Artists, January 1958, no. 86.
Probably London, Chenil Gallery, Drawings and Etchings by Augustus John, 1911, no. 7.

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Lot Essay

Alderney Manor on the Wimborne estate in Dorset was the home of the artist's family between June 1911 and March 1927. In a letter to Lytton Strachey of 24 July 1911, Henry Lamb wrote 'She [Dorelia] lives in an amazing place - a vast secluded park of prairies, pine woods, birch woods, dells and moors with a house, cottages and a circular walled-garden' (see M. Holroyd, Augustus John, London, 1996, pp. 359-60).

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