Portrait of Marie Hamonet

Details

Gwen John (1876-1939)
Portrait of Marie Hamonet
pencil on buff paper
7½ x 6¾ in. (19 x 17.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1918-19.

Provenance

The Estate of the Artist.
Mr and Mrs Godfrey Bonsack, London.
with Matthiesens, London.
with Davis & Langdale, New York (DLA 2462), where purchased by the present owner in 1996.

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Lot Essay

Marie Hamonet was a resident of Pléneuf, a village on the north coast of Brittany, where the artist stayed in 1918-19. She frequently posed for Gwen John. Although the drawing came from the artist's estate it has no estate number as it was one of a group of pictures purchased outright from the estate by Matthiesens.

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