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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

31 x 21

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Chenil Galleries, 1926, no. 25 (possibly); London, Matthiesen Gallery, 1946, no. 32 (asThe Same Sitter, Her Hands Folded in Her Lap); London, Arts Council Gallery,Gwen John,26 January - 2 March 1968, no. 24; New York, Davis & Long Company,Gwen John: A Retrospective Exhibition, 14 October - 1 November 1975, no. 20

Literature:

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

Provenance:

The Estate of the Artist; Matthiesen Gallery, London, where acquired by Hugo Pitman by 1946 and thence by family descent to the present owner