Woman playing a piano

细节

Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981)
Woman playing a piano
oil on canvas
23½ x 28½ in. (59.6 x 72.4 cm.)
There is a painting of mountain sheep on a cliff by Winifred Nicholson on the reverse.

来源

with Austin Desmond, London, where purchased by the present owner.

展览

London, Christie's, The New Patrons: Twentieth Century Art from Corporate Collections, January 1992, no. 158.
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, on loan during the publication of Christopher Andreae's monograph on Winifred Nicholson, June 2009.

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This is thought to be a portrait of Vera Moore, who was a close friend of Winifred Nicholson from the 1920s. Vera Moore was a New Zealand born pianist, as well as the partner of Constantin Brancusi. She was also a close friend of the collector Helen Sutherland, who greatly admired her 'heavenly' playing and wrote: 'Vera Moore is lovely when she plays - it is sculpture I think - the strange almost bland unseeing eyes and head of sculpture and inward life somehow. Another friend of mine said she looked as if she had just been told a lovely secret when she played' (quoted in V. Corbett, A Rhythm, A Rite, A Ceremony: Helen Sutherland at Cockley Moor, Penrith, 1996, p. 56).

We are very grateful to Jovan Nicholson for his assistance in preparing the catalogue entries for lots 44, 46 and 48.