LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

86.5 x 69 cm

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'Lamb/35'

Exhibited:

London, Leicester Galleries, Recent Paintings by Henry Lamb, November 1936, no. 28. , Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Sixty-Third Autumn Exhibition, October 1937 - January 1938, catalogue not traced. , London, Royal Academy, 1953, no. 182. , London, Leicester Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Henry Lamb, R.A., December 1961, no. 53. , Salisbury, The Salisbury Museum, Cecil Beaton at Home - Ashcombe and Reddish, May - September 2014, exhibition not numbered. , London, National Portrait Gallery, Bright Young Things, March 2020, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, May - July 2021.

Literature:

Royal Academy Illustrated, 1953, p. 59, illustrated. , Exhibition catalogue, Henry Lamb, Manchester, City Art Galleries, 1984, p. 9, illustrated. , Exhibition catalogue, Bright Young Things, London, National Portrait Gallery, 2020, p. 136, exhibition not numbered, illustrated. , M. Arditti, 'Gossip abounds', The Spectator, 12 June 2021, p. 37, illustrated.

Provenance:

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 November 2004, lot 19., Private collection, U.S.A., with Philip Mould & Co., London, where purchased by the present owner in March 2014.