
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
£10,000 - £15,000
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Provenance
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, London, 17 September 1936, where purchased by
Mr. Edmund Arnold, thence by descent to the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
Leeds, Temple Newsam, 12 July-14 September 1942, cat.no.18 (where lent by Edmund Arnold)
Literature
John Gledhill, Matthew Smith, Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2009, p.150, cat.no.323
Edmund Martin Arnold (1927-2017) was a long-standing trustee of the Leeds Art Fund and held the position of Honorary Treasurer between 1944 and 1954. The Fund was established in 1912 and is one of Britain's oldest art gallery "friends" organisations. Its core aim is to enrich the visual life of the city by making purchases of art works for display at the Leeds City Art Gallery, Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall. In his role with the Fund Arnold often travelled to London and Paris on the hunt for exciting acquisitions for the city. It was on these trips that he also made personal acquisitions, building a fine collection of contemporary British and Continental works.