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Painting I
Details
JOHN CECIL STEPHENSON (1889-1965)
Painting I
signed and dated 'JOHN STEPHENSON 1937' (on the stretcher), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'Painting I/John Stephenson/Circle Exhibition/LONDON GALLERY/1937' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
tempera on canvas stretched over panel
21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm.)
Painted in 1937.
Painting I
signed and dated 'JOHN STEPHENSON 1937' (on the stretcher), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'Painting I/John Stephenson/Circle Exhibition/LONDON GALLERY/1937' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
tempera on canvas stretched over panel
21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm.)
Painted in 1937.
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland, by 1980.
with Fischer Fine Art, London.
with Fine Art Society, London, where purchased in April 2010.
with Fischer Fine Art, London.
with Fine Art Society, London, where purchased in April 2010.
Exhibited
London, London Gallery, Circle Exhibition: Exhibition of Constructive Art, July 1937.
London, Fischer Fine Art, Cecil Stephenson: Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings, 1932-1957, October - November 1976, no. 9.
Winterthur, Kunst Museum, From a Swiss Collection of Modern Art 1909-39, March - April 1980, no. 51: this exhibition travelled to Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, April - June 1980; and Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm Hack Museum, June - August 1980.
London, Gillian Jason Gallery, Alastair Morton John Cecil Stephenson Abstraction 1933-1960, May - July 1986, no. 4.
Durham, DLI and Durham Art Gallery, John Cecil Stephenson Pioneer of Modernism, February - April 2012, illustrated on the front cover.
London, Fischer Fine Art, Cecil Stephenson: Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings, 1932-1957, October - November 1976, no. 9.
Winterthur, Kunst Museum, From a Swiss Collection of Modern Art 1909-39, March - April 1980, no. 51: this exhibition travelled to Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, April - June 1980; and Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm Hack Museum, June - August 1980.
London, Gillian Jason Gallery, Alastair Morton John Cecil Stephenson Abstraction 1933-1960, May - July 1986, no. 4.
Durham, DLI and Durham Art Gallery, John Cecil Stephenson Pioneer of Modernism, February - April 2012, illustrated on the front cover.
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