Composition study for Penelope
Maker
(artist)
1884-1937
1884-1937
Title
Composition study for Penelope
Date of Production
1922 - 1923
Medium
graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper, squared in graphite, with numerous pin holes all around the edges
Dimensions
Height: 48.4 cm
Width: 37.1 cm
Width: 37.1 cm
Accession Number
D.1962.GC.386
Mode of Acquisition
Gabrielle Cross, gift, 1962
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
by descent to the artist's niece, Miss Gabrielle Cross (1910-1997); Gabrielle Cross Gift 1962
Exhibition History
Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 14/05/2022-23/10/2022
Literature
Glyn Philpot 1884-1937. Edwardian Aesthete to Thirties Modernist, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1984
under no. 83 on p. 99
Christie's, Modern British and Irish paintings, watercolours and drawings., London 7 November 1991
under lot 52
Martin, Simon, Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit, Pallant House Gallery 2022
p. 108
fig. 118 on p. 110
under no. 83 on p. 99
Christie's, Modern British and Irish paintings, watercolours and drawings., London 7 November 1991
under lot 52
Martin, Simon, Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit, Pallant House Gallery 2022
p. 108
fig. 118 on p. 110
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower right corner: "P.MFABRIANO".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, graphite, partly obscured by wash: “[…] black […]”; graphite arrows pointing to the grid lines around the upper, left and lower sides of the drawing; along the lower right side the rows are numbered in graphite from “7” to “16”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, graphite, partly obscured by wash: “[…] black […]”; graphite arrows pointing to the grid lines around the upper, left and lower sides of the drawing; along the lower right side the rows are numbered in graphite from “7” to “16”.
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