LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and charcoal on canvas

Measurements:

40.00 in. (101.60 cm.) (height) by 21.61 in. (54.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with inscription by Gabrielle Cross 'NEGRO SITTING/1937./Front View./GLYN PHILPOT' (on a label attached to the frame)

Exhibited:

London, Leighton House Museum, Retrospective Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by Glyn Warren Philpot R.A. 1884-1937, February 1959, no. 62.

Literature:

A.C. Sewter, Glyn Philpot 1884-1937, London, 1951, n.p., pl. 105.

Provenance:

Gabrielle Cross, the artist's niece. J. Wood Palmer. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 May 1987, lot 161. with Roy Miles, London.