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Gwen John

Mère Poussepin

Auction Closed

June 30, 10:59 AM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Gwen John

1876 - 1939

Mère Poussepin


oil on canvas

unframed: 61 by 38cm.; 24 by 15in.

framed: 79 by 54.5cm.; 31 by 21½in.

Executed probably in the late 1910s.

The Estate of the Artist
Matthiesen Gallery, London, where acquired by Hugo Pitman by 1946 and thence by family descent to the present owner
Allan Gwynne-Jones, Portrait Painters, London, 1950, p. 34, illustrated pl. 135 (as La Mere Poussepin)
John Rothenstein, Modern English Painters, St. Martin Press, New York, p. 173
Cecily Langdale, Gwen John With a Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987, no. 54, illustrated pl. 207