JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (BRITISH, 1849-1917)
JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (BRITISH, 1849-1917)
JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (BRITISH, 1849-1917)
JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (BRITISH, 1849-1917)
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JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (BRITISH, 1849-1917)

The Rose Bower

細節
JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (BRITISH, 1849-1917)
The Rose Bower
oil on canvas
16 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (41.9 cm. x 36.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1910.
來源
with Peter Nahum, London, by 1989.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 November 1992, lot 126.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 June 1996, lot 574.
出版
A. Hobson, John William Waterhouse, Oxford, 1989, pp. 89, 98, pl. 70, illustrated.
J. Findley, John Waterhouse: 130 Paintings, 2014, digital publication, illustrated.
M. Tsaneva, J. W. Waterhouse: 175 Paintings and Drawings, 2014, digital publication, illustrated.
D. Cavallaro, J. W. Waterhouse and the Magic of Color, Jefferson, NC, 2017, pp. 158, 195.
展覽
San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, on long-term loan, August 2008-January 2011.

榮譽呈獻

Elizabeth Seigel
Elizabeth Seigel Vice President, Specialist, Head of Private and Iconic Collections

拍品專文

This charming and sensitive study is thought to date from 1910, two years after Waterhouse completed two of his most popular works, The Soul of the Rose (Christie’s, New York, 28 October 2019, lot 206, $4,695,000) and Gather ye Rosebuds while ye May (Christie’s, London, 13 December 2022, lot 4, £966,000). In 1908, Waterhouse had begun with these paintings a six-year exploration of what we might call flower-women, a series of gorgeous, non-narrative paintings to which the present work belongs. In them, maidens carry flowers in vases, arrange them in their hair as they gaze into mirrors, or as in the present work, stand among them in gardens, inhaling their heady scent. Gather Ye Rosebuds while Ye May, among the earliest of these works, took its title from the Elizabethan poem To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, which warned the ‘flower that smiles to-day,/To-morrow will be dying’. The celebration of beauty, shot through with the tension of its inevitable disappearance is an overarching theme of the series and Waterhouse's oeuvre more generally; the artist had associated women with the beauty, simplicity and ephemerality of flowers from the outset of his career. The Rose Bower is another celebration of the fleeting nature of youth and beauty, that ultimately owes much in its format to Rossetti.

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