Live Auction 11148Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Sir William Blake Richmond, R.A. (1842-1921)
Lot 13

Sir William Blake Richmond, R.A. (1842-1921)

Female head study, looking up

Closed16 June 2015

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GBP 6,250

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Sir William Blake Richmond, R.A. (1842-1921)
Female head study, looking up
signed, indistinctly inscribed and dated 'G. Pradeau[/from his friend/W.B. Richmond April 15 1882' (lower left) and inscribed 'Mrs W Pradeau' (on the reverse, according to previous cataloguing)
sanguine chalk, heightened with white on buff paper
16 x 11 ¾ in. (40.8 x 29.8 cm.)

with The Maas Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owners.

Specialist note

The present sheet appears from the inscription to have been executed during Blake Richmond's first visit to Greece in the summer of 1882. The trip was such a success that he returned again the following year and as a direct result of these visits he painted An Audience in Athens (Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery).

This drawing demonstrates the artist's extraordinary ability to capture a vivid likeness with just a few judicious strokes.