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Spotlights: Gwen John
Free entry- Artist
- Gwen John 1876–1939
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 470 × 203 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1940
- Reference
- N05153
Catalogue entry
N05153 STUDY OF A GIRL HOLDING A DOLL c. 1914
Not inscribed.
Monochrome wash, 18 1/2×8 (47×20).
Purchased from the Matthiesen Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1940.
Coll: As for No.5152.
The same girl appears in several other drawings done by Gwen John in Brittany. See Memorial exhibition, Matthiesen Gallery, September–October 1946, Nos.124–8, described as ‘a girl with a sulky expression’ or ‘enfant pensive’.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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