Glyn Warren Philpot, R.A. (1884-1937)

Details

Glyn Warren Philpot, R.A. (1884-1937)

Bistro, Havre

signed with initials lower right G.P, pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
14 x 9¼in. (35.6 x 23.5cm.)

Provenance

Sir Oswald Birley, by whom purchased at the 1937 exhibition
His widow, Lady Birley, Charleston Manor, Alfriston, Sussex; Christie's (on the premises), 13 Oct. 1980, lot 248
with the Fine Art Society, London, from whom purchased by the late owner

Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Figure-Pieces, Portraits, Landscapes and Flower-Pieces in Oil and Watercolour by Glyn Philpot, 4-27 Nov. 1937, no.49 (25gns.)
London, National Portrait Gallery, Glyn Philpot 1884-1937, Edwardian Aesthete to Thirties Modernist, 9 Nov.1984-10 Feb.1985, p.114, no.112, illustrated

Lot Essay

Painted in 1936-7, the present work is a watercolour version of one of the artist's most important late oils of genre subjects, which was also included in the same 1937 exhibition and was last seen publicly in the exhibition, Spring '86, The Fine Art Society, London, 28 April-6 June 1986, no.48, illustrated in colour.

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