Vente aux enchères en direct 8051Impressionist / Modern Day Sale
Augustus Edwin John, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)
Lot 511The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor

Augustus Edwin John, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)

Portrait of Mavis in green

Fermé8 February 2012

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GBP 3,750

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Augustus Edwin John, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)
Portrait of Mavis in green
signed 'John' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 x 20 in. (63.5 x 50.8 cm.)

Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles.
Acquired by the late owner by 1979.

Note du spécialiste

Mabel Wright, known by her friends as 'Mavis', met her future husband, the eccentric prankster and poet, (William) Horace de Vere Cole (1881-1936), and Augustus John in 1928 at the Café Royal on Regent Street. Her marriage to Cole in 1930 was to be the beginning of an impressive social career as a 'Bright Young Thing'. In 1934 she became John's mistress, and following the death of Cole, she married the eminent archaeologist Sir (Robert Eric) Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976).