Portrait of Edward Wolfe

Details

Nina Hamnett (1890-1956)
Portrait of Edward Wolfe
signed with initials and dated 'N.H./18.' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'Portrait. Edward WOLFE/by NINA HAMNETT' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
24 x 19¾ in. (60.5 x 50.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Alfred Willey, where purchased in 1938.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

Edward Wolfe (1897-1982) was born and brought up in South Africa. He moved to London in 1916 to study at the Slade (1916-1918). Nina Hamnett asked him to join the Omega Workshops in 1917 and he first exhibited with them in 1918 at the time when this work was painted.

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