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Sketch for 'Decoration, The Women at the Well'
Details
AUGUSTUS JOHN, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)
Sketch for 'Decoration, The Women at the Well'
signed and dated 'John - f.07' (lower right)
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
13 1/4 x 18 in. (33.6 x 45.8 cm.)
Executed in 1907.
Sketch for 'Decoration, The Women at the Well'
signed and dated 'John - f.07' (lower right)
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
13 1/4 x 18 in. (33.6 x 45.8 cm.)
Executed in 1907.
Provenance
Samuel Courtauld, and by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Carfax Gallery, Drawings by Augustus E. John, November 1907, no. 63.
Manchester, City Art Gallery, no. 1511, catalogue not traced.
Manchester, City Art Gallery, no. 1511, catalogue not traced.
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.
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