Portrait of a seated lady in a blue dress

Details

James Bolivar Manson (1879-1945)
Portrait of a seated lady in a blue dress
oil on board
13 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. (34.9 x 24.8 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs Elizabeth Manson.
with Maltzahn Gallery Ltd., London.

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

The identity of the sitter of this portrait is unknown, although it has traditionally been suggested that she is Manson's first wife Lillian. However, photographs of Lillian indicates that she was fair haired. In 1938 Manson and Lillian separated and he moved to Bolton Studios with his mistress Elizabeth Hayward who, in 1941, changed her name by deed poll to Manson. The present work was presumably one of several left to her on his death in 1945.

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