Live Auction 20038An Aesthetic Odyssey: The Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan Collection
FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Lot 140

FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1830-1896)

Preliminary sketch for 'Greek Girls playing at Ball'

Closed30 September 2021

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FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Preliminary sketch for 'Greek Girls playing at Ball'
pencil, black chalk and white bodycolour on grey-blue paper
5 ¼ x 5 ¾ in. (13.4 x 14.7 cm.)

Probably, Mrs Russell Barrington, by whom given to
Vita Sackville-West.
with Abbott & Holder, London, 1964, where purchased for the present collection.

Specialist note


The painting to which this relates was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889, and is now at Glasgow Art Gallery. In the present drawing, the figures are closer together than in the finished picture, and the composition compressed.