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Gwen John (British, 1876-1939) A Woman Sewing by Lamplight 22.2 x 23.5 cm. (8 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.) (Executed in the late 1890s) image 1
Gwen John (British, 1876-1939) A Woman Sewing by Lamplight 22.2 x 23.5 cm. (8 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.) (Executed in the late 1890s) image 2
Gwen John (British, 1876-1939) A Woman Sewing by Lamplight 22.2 x 23.5 cm. (8 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.) (Executed in the late 1890s) image 3
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Gwen John
(British, 1876-1939)
A Woman Sewing by Lamplight 22.2 x 23.5 cm. (8 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)

29 September 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,120 inc. premium

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Gwen John (British, 1876-1939)

A Woman Sewing by Lamplight
stamped with Estate stamp 'Gwen John' (lower left)
pencil
22.2 x 23.5 cm. (8 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Executed in the late 1890s

Footnotes

Provenance
The Artist's Estate, until 1970
With Faerber and Maison, London
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
London, Faerber and Maison, Gwen John 1876-1939, 4-27 June 1970, cat.no.33

Literature
Cecily Langdale, Gwen John, With a Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings and
a Selection of the Drawings
, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987, cat.no.169, p.187, pl. 272 (ill.b&w)

Gwen John studied at the Slade between 1895-1898, which was the only art school in Britain at the time to allow female students. Under the guidance of Henry Tonks she developed the same talent for draughtsmanship that would characterise a generation of students including, of course, her celebrated brother Augustus. Following the Slade she studied in Paris at the Academie Carmen with James McNeill Whistler and lived in France for much of her life, painting portraits of mainly anonymous female sitters.

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