Elephant

Details

David Jones (1895-1974)
Elephant
signed and dated 'David Jones/1928' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 27 in. (50.8 x 68.6 cm.)

Provenance

with Anthony d'Offay London.
with Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, where purchased by Mrs Prudence Loftus, June 1991.

Exhibited

London, Beaux Arts Gallery (not traced).
Southport, Atkinson Art Gallery, The Seven and Five Society 1920-35, August-September 1979, no. 29, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, September-October 1979; Colchester, The Minories, October-November 1979; London, Parkin Gallery, January-February 1980; and Penzance, Newlyn-Orion Gallery, February-March 1980.
London, Austin Desmond Fine Art, Modern British Art, A Selection, 1988, no. 27.

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Lot Essay

Jones executed a number of drawings of animals at London Zoo in 1928. A drawing of an Elephant (private collection) was exhibited at London, Tate Gallery, David Jones, July-Septemer, 1981, no. 49.

In 1928 the artist was successfully proposed by his friend Ben Nicholson for election to the Seven and Five Society, then the most progressive exhibiting group in London.

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