Study for a nymph in 'Bacchus and Ariadne'

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Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S. (1861-1944)
Study for a nymph in 'Bacchus and Ariadne'
signed with monogram, numbered and dated '17. XII/1910' (lower left) and inscribed 'Study for a nymph/in "Bacchus and Ariadne"/bought by W Haywood F.R.I.B.A.' (lower left)
pencil and blue wash heightened with white, unframed
14½ x 11¼ in. (36.8 x 28.5 cm.); and an unframed study for the male figure in the top right hand corner of the same work, by the same hand (2)

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Lot Essay

'Bacchus and Ariadne' (private collection) was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1913 and at the New English Art Club, London, the following winter. It was included in the 1980 exhibition catalogue, p. 42, B10, (illustrated), and represented Southall in the exhibition The Last Romantics held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 1989 (no. 73).

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