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Study of a Girl Reading
Details
GWEN JOHN (1876-1939)
Study of a Girl Reading
with estate stamp (lower left)
pencil and watercolour on paper
9 ¾ x 6 ¼ in. (24.8 x 15.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1909.
Study of a Girl Reading
with estate stamp (lower left)
pencil and watercolour on paper
9 ¾ x 6 ¼ in. (24.8 x 15.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1909.
Provenance
The artist, and by descent until 1969.
with Faerber & Maison, London, 1969, where purchased by Davis & Long, New York in 1975.
Acquired from the above by Nell and George Moskowitz.
Anonymous sale; Freeman's, Philadelphia, 18 July 2023, lot 80, where purchased by the present owner.
with Faerber & Maison, London, 1969, where purchased by Davis & Long, New York in 1975.
Acquired from the above by Nell and George Moskowitz.
Anonymous sale; Freeman's, Philadelphia, 18 July 2023, lot 80, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
C. Langdale, Gwen John: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings, New Haven and London, 1987, pp. 35, 43-44, 192-193, no. 189, pl. 284.
Exhibited
London, Matthiesen, Gwen John Memorial Exhibition, September - October 1946, as ‘Half-Length of a Girl Reading’.
New York, Davis Galleries, Turn of the Century English Watercolors and Drawings, March 1969, no. 31, illustrated.
New York, Davis & Long, Gwen John: A Retrospective Exhibition, October - November 1975, p. 39, no. 39, illustrated.
Stanford, University Museum of Art, Gwen John: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of John Quinn & Others, April - June 1982, pp. 33, 37, no. 15, illustrated.
New York, Davis Galleries, Turn of the Century English Watercolors and Drawings, March 1969, no. 31, illustrated.
New York, Davis & Long, Gwen John: A Retrospective Exhibition, October - November 1975, p. 39, no. 39, illustrated.
Stanford, University Museum of Art, Gwen John: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of John Quinn & Others, April - June 1982, pp. 33, 37, no. 15, illustrated.
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