Dorelia in gypsy dress

Maker

(artist)
1878-1961

Title

Date of Production

1907 - 1910

Medium

graphite on heavy wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 45.7 cm
Width: 24.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2327

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This drawing is one of a large group of studies by John of his partner Dorelia, some of which show her wearing a gypsy dress with a voluminous skirt. John saw himself as an inheritor of the "great Tradition" of line drawings as oppose to what he termed "stumping" (drawing with chalk dust applied with rolled up paper). John wrote of his admiration for the "method of rendering human form by a succession of rhythmical lines following the surface and explaining the structure" that he had been taught as a student.

Provenance

possibly purchased at an exhibition of the artist's work around 1910 by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £5.5; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

A Passion for Drawings, Collectors at the Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/02/2002-09/06/2002

Edwardian reflections: an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures of the period 1895-1915, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 13/07/1975-12/10/1975

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Literature

Edwardian reflections: an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures of the period 1895-1915, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 1975
cat. no. 81

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 29

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 16

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, signed: "John-".

Collector's mark: none.

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