Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944)

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Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944)

Beauty seeing the Image of her Home in the Fountain

signed with a monogram and dated lower centre 1897-8, signed again and inscribed twice on a label and on the backboard Beauty seeing the image of her Home in the Fountain price #126 Joseph E Southall 13 Charlotte Road Edgbaston Birmingham Painted in Tempera Not to be varnished JES, tempera on panel in the original carved wood frame
18 x 18in. (46 x 46cm.)

Provenance

New Gallery, London, 1898 where purchased by Lawrence W. Hodson, the present owner's grandfather

Literature

G. Breeze, Joseph Southall, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 1980, p.34

Exhibited

London, New Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1898, no. 290, where purchased by the present owner's family
London, Leighton House, Modern Paintings in Tempera, 1901, no.13
Wolverhampton, Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1902, no.116
Paris, Georges Petit, Joseph Southall, 1910, no.6
Birmingham, Museums and Art Gallery, Joseph Southall, 1980, no.B3

Lot Essay

The fairy-tale of Beauty and the Beast was a favourite subject for Southall and he painted several episodes including 'Beauty receiving the white Rose from her Father' and 'Beauty and her Father in Beast's Palace'. In the artist's manuscript notes he recounts a visit to Edward Burne-Jones 'Went to lunch with EB-J again and took Beauty at the Fountain a good way towards completion. Philip B-J was there. He EB-J did not quite like the face but admired the rest very much and said the red drapery she sits upon was a 'heavenly red' - liked 'the little chap' on fountain and the pigeons very much also her hands and arms he praised most warmly & the jewel on bracelet'
(See G. Breeze, Joseph Southall, loc. cit.)

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