- Artist
- Augustus John OM 1878–1961
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 368 × 445 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
- Reference
- N05159
Catalogue entry
N05159 DORELIA 1909
Inscr. ‘John -09.’ b.r.
Pencil and watercolour, 14 1/2×17 1/2 (37×44·5).
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940.
Coll: Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck.
Repr:
Burlington Magazine, LXXVIII, 1941, p.55c.
The identification of the figure in this drawing has been disputed but Mrs John confirms that it is of herself. See N05157.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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