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Seated female nude

Maker

(artist)
1893-1973

Title

Seated female nude

Date of Production

(circa) 1926

Medium

graphite on wove paper, with graphite framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 45.8 cm
Width: 43.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1935.SC.33

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© the estate of John Armstrong. All rights reserved 2023 / Bridgeman Images

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

exhibited by the artist at Leicester Galleries (London), October 1929; probably purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947); Samuel Courtauld Gift 1935

Exhibition History

Drawings from the Courtauld, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery, 1977-79

The nude: 19th & 20th century paintings, drawings, sculpture , prints, Morley Gallery, London, 10/04/1975-24/05/1975

John Armstrong, Leicester Galleries, London, 1929 (October)

Literature

Drawings from the Courtauld, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Ports, 1977-79
cat. no. 1

The nude: 19th & 20th century paintings, drawings, sculpture , prints, Morley Gallery, London, 1975
cat. no. 2

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 156

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: right lower margin, graphite: “3”; lower right, graphite, signed with initials but no crossbar on “A”: “JA”.

Collector's mark: none.

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