LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.46 in. (54.50 cm.) (height) by 12.60 in. (32.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, The New Chenil Galleries, Paintings and Drawings by Gwen John, May - July 1926, cat. no.34 (as Reading);. Swansea, Deffett Francis Art Gallery, Contemporary Welsh Art Exhibition, September - October 1935, cat. no.9 (as Dorelia);. London, The Matthiesen Gallery, Gwen John Memorial Exhibition, September - October 1946, cat. no. 12 (as Dorelia at Toulouse);. London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Gwen John 1876 - 1939, 1946, cat. no.4, illustrated pl.1 (as Dorelia at Toulouse); . London, Tate, Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John: A Memorial Exhibition, May - June 1952, cat. no.104, illustrated (as Dorelia at Toulouse);. Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, The Early Years of The New English Art Club 1886 - 1918, 1952, cat. no.45 (as Dorelia at Toulouse);. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition: British Portraits, November 1956 - March 1957, cat. no.507 (as Dorelia at Toulouse);. London, The Matthiesen Gallery, Gwen John, June - July 1961, cat. no.1 (as Dorelia at Toulouse);. London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Gwen John: A Retrospective Exhibition, January - March 1968, cat. no.6, illustrated, with Arts Council tour to Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield and The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff;. London, National Portrait Gallery, August John, March - August 1975 (details untraced);. London, Anthony d’Offay, Gwen John, March 1976, cat. no.2;. London, Anthony d’Offay, Gwen John, 1876 - 1939, July - August 1982, cat. no.3.

Literature:

Country Life, 19 th June 1926, pp.884-5, illustrated (as Reading);. The Burlington Magazine, vol.CX, no.780, March 1968, illustrated pl.61;. John Rothenstein, Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith, Macdonald and Jane's, New York, 1976, p.167 (as Dorelia at Toulouse);. Susan Chitty, Gwen John 1876 - 1939, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1981, p.60;. Mary Taumbman, Gwen John, Scolar Press, London, 1985, cat. no.13, p.45, illustrated;. Cecily Langdale, Gwen John, With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings, Yale Univeristy Press, New Haven & London, 1987, cat. no.10, illustrated pl.19;. Exh. Cat., London, Tate, Gwen John and Augustus John, 2004, fig.4, p.17, illustrated.

Provenance:

Augustus John (as a gift from the artist, his sister). Dorothy (Dorelia) McNeill (gifted from the above in 1961). Romilly John (by descent from the above, as of 1968). Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (acquired from the above in November 1982)