Portrait of a Lady

細節

Gwen John (1876-1939)
Portrait of a Lady
stamped with studio stamp 'Gwen John' (lower right)
pencil and grey wash
8¾ x 5½ in. (22.2 x 14 cm.)
Executed circa 1908-10.

來源

The artist's estate (E.J. 441) until 1970.
with Davis Galleries, New York, where purchased by the present owner.

出版

Apollo, June 1970, p. 472, illustrated.

展覽

London, Faerber and Maison, Gwen John, June 1970, no. 26, illustrated on cover.
New York, Davis Galleries, Nineteenth Century English Watercolours and Drawings, 1970, no. 26.
New York, Davis & Long, Gwen John: A Retrospective Exhibition, October - November 1975, no. 40.

注意事項

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拍品專文

This drawing is related to a series of drawings (Langdale nos. 50, 51, 195-8) that Cecily Langdale has suggested may depict Maude Boughton-Leigh (see note to lot 7). Langdale comments, 'Maude Boughton-Leigh (circa 1881-1945), called Grilda, was a friend of Gwen John in Paris and was herself an artist. Her sister Chloe is the subject of three paintings by Gwen and a number of drawings. Gwen John's drawings of 'a lady' and of Chloe Boughton-Leigh date from much the same period and are closely related stylistically. There is a notably strong resemblance between the two sitters: they have similar heavy-lidded eyes, high-arched brows, full lips and broad-based noses ... These drawings have sometimes wrongly been called self portraits' (see Langdale, op. cit, p. 194).