Lot 109
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898)
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898)

Study of hands for the portrait of Amy Gaskell

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898)
Study of hands for the portrait of Amy Gaskell
black and white chalk on sanguine paper
11¼ x 8½ in. (28.5 x 21.5 cm.)
Provenance
with The Maas Gallery, London.
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Lot Essay

This drawing is a study for a finished oil that was exhibited in the Lloyd Webber Collection, Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters, Royal Academy, London, 2003, no. 50. The portrait of Amy Gaskell is one of the artist's most haunting, reflecting the enigma of a youth that is no longer a girl, but not yet a woman. Amy was the daughter of one of his dearest friends, May Gaskell whose relationship with Burne-Jones has been recently explored in Josceline Dimbleby's A Profound Secret, London, 2004.

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