Not on display
- Artist
- Simeon Solomon 1840–1905
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 267 x 209 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1980
- Reference
- T03104
Catalogue entry
T03104 STUDY OF SAPPHO 1862
Inscribed ‘SAPPHO’ on a scroll bottom left and ‘ss [in monogram]/14 4/62’
Pencil on paper, 10 1/8 × 8 1/2 (26.6 × 21)
Purchased from the Christopher Wood Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
Prov: ...; purchased from Durlacher Gallery, New York, c.1965, by Van Deren Coke, on whose behalf sold by Christopher Wood 1980.
Solomon used this study for the head of Sappho in his watercolour of ‘Sappho and Erinna’, T03063 above. However, as it bears a date nearly two years earlier than the watercolour, the drawing may not have been made with the latter in mind.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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