Lot Essay
This composition relates to a pastel from 1903 'Rustic Idyll', which shows a man and a woman fighting (see J. Rothenstein, Augustus John, London, 1944, pl.11).
Details
Augustus John, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)
Study for Peasants in Altercation
signed lower right John, pencil and watercolour
9½ x 13½in. (24 x 34.5cm.)
Executed circa 1903
Study for Peasants in Altercation
signed lower right John, pencil and watercolour
9½ x 13½in. (24 x 34.5cm.)
Executed circa 1903
Exhibited
Pennsylvania, Academy of Fine Art, Peale Galleries, Augustus John, Jan.-March 1968, no.15