Woman Peeling an Apple (The Bastard)

Details

Frank Dobson, R.A. (1886-1963)
Woman Peeling an Apple (The Bastard)
oil on canvas
25 x 22 in. (63.5 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1913.

Provenance

Arthur Lett-Haines, by whom purchased from the artist in 1919.

Exhibited

Hadleigh, The Ixion Society as The Bastard (catalogue not traced). Cambridge, Arts Council of Great Britain, Kettle's Yard, True and Pure Sculpture Frank Dobson 1886-1963, July-August 1981, no. 18 (illustrated): this exhibition toured to Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, September-October 1981; Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, October-November 1981; and Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, November 1981-January 1982.

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Lot Essay

The influence of Mark Gertler is clearly seen at this date, in the monumental and sculptural form of the seated woman. The work was painted in Cornwall where Dobson shared a studio with Cedric Morris at Newlyn, and briefly studied under Stanhope Forbes at his School of Art, although the two parted company because Dobson found Forbes' teaching unsympathetic and Forbes could not tolerate his pupil's modernism. The alternative title, The Bastard presumably relates to the status of the unborn child that the woman is carrying (see R. Hopper, Arts Council exhibition catalogue, 1981, intro.)

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