Dancing Geisha Girl

Details

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933)
Dancing Geisha Girl
signed and inscribed 'A Mon Ami/Alex Taylor/of Bury/EAHornel' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
48 x 24 in. (122 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1894.

Provenance

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Glendevon, P.C., Christie's, London 18 November 1977, lot 78 (£2,000 to Fine Art Society).
with Fine Art Society, London.

Literature

R. Billcliffe, The Glasgow Boys, London, 1985, pp. 259-260, pl. 238.

Exhibited

Glasgow, Scottish Arts Council, Mr Henry and Mr Hornel visit Japan, December 1978 - January 1979, no. EH5, illustrated p. 42; this exhibition toured to Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, February - March 1979; Ayr, McLaurin Art Gallery, March - April 1979; Inverness, Museum and Art Gallery, April - May 1979; and London, Fine Art Society, May - June 1979.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

In 1893 Alexander Reid financed Hornel and George Henry on a journey to Japan. The fascination with all things Japanese, which Whistler had promoted and which had been cultivated by the Aesthetes, had been gaining widespread interest. Their trip lasted a year and included visits to Nagasaki, Yokohama and Tokyo. On their return to Glasgow, Hornel exhibited his pictures in Reid's showrooms and the trip was to provide him with valuable material for some years to come. He maintained his association with the Far East, painting in Ceylon in 1907 and revisiting Japan and Burma in 1922.

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