Portrait sketch of Mrs. Emile Mond dressed for the Chelsea Arts Club Ball

Details

Glyn Warren Philpot R.A. (1884-1937)
Portrait sketch of Mrs. Emile Mond dressed for the Chelsea Arts Club Ball
signed 'G.W.Philpot' (lower right)
oil on canvas
44¼ x 34 in. (112.4 x 86.4 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 June 1995, lot 37 (£3,220).

Literature

R. Gibson, Exhibition catalogue, Glyn Philpot 1884-1937 Edwardian Aesthete to Thirties Modernist, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1985, p. 48, under no. 13.

Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture by the late Glyn Philpot, R.A. (1884-1937), July-August, 1938, no. 2.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Mrs Mond was the sister of the artist Sigismund Goetze. Her husband was the cousin of Alfred, 1st Lord Melchett, financier, industrialist, and politician who became the first chairman of ICI. Philpot also painted a formal portrait of her in 1910 (see R. Gibson, loc. cit.), which owes a pronounced debt to Velasquez and was favourably compared to the work of his contemporaries, Sargent and Shannon. The Mond family were significant patrons of Philpot.

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