Lot Essay
In Drawings, (op. cit.), the artist explains 'My model was resting, so I heartlessly asked her to keep still while I made the left-hand study. The others were done later.'
Details
Sir William Russell Flint, R.A. (1880-1969)
Four Backs
signed lower right W Russell Flint, signed again and inscribed on the backboard W Russell Flint Four Backs Reserved for Mr and Mrs Sam Costa, pencil, coloured crayons and chalk on artist's paper with 1930 watermark
8½ x 14in. (21.5 x 35.5cm.)
Four Backs
signed lower right W Russell Flint, signed again and inscribed on the backboard W Russell Flint Four Backs Reserved for Mr and Mrs Sam Costa, pencil, coloured crayons and chalk on artist's paper with 1930 watermark
8½ x 14in. (21.5 x 35.5cm.)
Provenance
Fine Art Society, Nov. 1950
Literature
Sir W.R. Flint, Drawings, London, 1950, pl.9