Gwen John (1876-1939)

細節

Gwen John (1876-1939)

Two Girls in Victorian Dress

with stamped signature lower left Gwen John, watercolour and bodycolour
6½ x 4½in. (16.5 x 11.5cm.)

Executed circa 1930

來源

The Estate of the Artist; E.J.73
Dorelia John

展覽

London, Matthiesen Ltd., Gwen John Memorial Exhibition, Sept.-Oct. 1946, no.98
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Arts Council Gallery, Gwen John, Jan.-March 1968, no.103: this exhibition travelled to Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, March-April 1968; and Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, April-May 1968

拍品專文

One of a group of studies of the Ste Thérèse de Lisieux, based upon a photograph of the girl aged 3½ years with her sister. She was born in 1873 and entered the Carmelite Convent at Lisieux at the age of fifteen. After her death in 1897 two of her notebooks were published as 'The Story of the Soul'. She was beatified in 1923 and canonized in 1925.
(see C. Langdale, Gwen John, New Haven, 1987, pp.207, 231).