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Composition study for Penelope

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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”.

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