Simeon Solomon

Study of Sappho

1862

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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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