Live Auction 21951Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale
GWEN JOHN (1876-1939)
Lot 208 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT WEST COAST COLLECTION

GWEN JOHN (1876-1939)

Seated Girl with Folded Arms

Closed19 October 2023

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GBP 11,340

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GWEN JOHN (1876-1939)
Seated Girl with Folded Arms
with estate stamp (lower right)
watercolour on buff paper
12 ¼ x 9 3⁄8 in. (31.1 x 23.8 cm.)
Executed in the late 1910s.

The artist's estate.
Purchased by the previous owner at the 1986 exhibition.
Purchased by the present owner at the 2004 exhibition.

Specialist note

This unidentified model is probably one of the Breton peasant children who posed for Gwen John during her stays in Finistère and Pléneuf in the late 1910s, and is the subject of a number of drawings by the artist.