Live Auction 17199British & European Art: Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
John William Godward, R.B.A. (1861-1922)
Lot 24

John William Godward, R.B.A. (1861-1922)

Memories, a study

Closed11 July 2019

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GBP 56,250

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John William Godward, R.B.A. (1861-1922)
Memories, a study
signed and dated 'J.W. GODWARD. '90.' (centre left)
oil on canvas
13 x 9 in. (33 x 22.8 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 November 1969, part lot 104, as A Classical Beauty.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 12 June 1973, lot 162, as Waiting.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 23 June 1981, lot 236, as On the Terrace.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Monaco, 15 June 1986, lot 91, as Sur la Terrasse.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 23 May 1991, lot 213, as Faraway Thoughts.
with Allan Turak, New Jersey.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 1997, lot 91, as Waiting for the procession.

Specialist note

Although the present picture has been known by many titles, in Vern Swanson's second edition of his catalogue raisonné he identifies the painting as a study for Godward's 1891 work Memories (Broken Hill Art Gallery, Australia).