LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pastel, on light blue paper

Size Notes:

20.50 x 14.50 in. (52 x 37 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelites, their Friends and Followers, 1948, no. 174, lent from the Lever Collection, Port Sunlight.

Literature:

R.R. Tatlock, English Painting of the XVIII to XXth Centuries: A Record of the Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, London, 1928, p. 136, no. 2887 (as 'Head of a lady. Coloured chalk drawing'). V. Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Catalogue Raisonn, Oxford, 1971, vol. 1, p. 205, no. 564.

Provenance:

William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme. Given by him to the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Cheshire. Sold by the Trustees of the Lady Lever Art Gallery; Christie's, London, 6 June 1958, part of lot 81 (75 gns to Mrs G. Dimson). Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 2000, lot 28. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 June 2004, lot 20A, where purchased by the present owner.