
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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Provenance
Acquired by the present owner prior to 1975
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, National Portrait Gallery, March-August 1975
London, Olympia, Augustus John, 23-28 February 1999, cat.no.289
Please note there is a preliminary sketch by the artist verso.
This portrait drawing relates to the well known oil painting Dorelia Standing before a Fence, circa 1904-5 (Tate Britain), in which she wears a black hat trimmed with the same cockerel's tail.
We are grateful to Rebecca John for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.