Description & Technical information
This small flower piece may likely be dated to the final decade of Gwen John’s career, when she produced a number of freely-painted gouache variants of a still-life composition of flowers in a jug. As the artist’s biographer has noted of this period in the early 1930s, ‘Flower studies…[were] repeated time and again and growing smaller. It was as if painting had become for Gwen John what saying the rosary is to others.’
A closely related composition, of identical dimensions, was at one time with the Browse and Darby Gallery in London.
Medium: Gouache on buff paper
Dimensions: 19.1 x 14.5 cm (7¹/₂ x 5³/₄ inches)
Provenance: The estate of the artist
Browse and Darby, London
Private collection, London.
Categories: Paintings, Drawings & Prints
Discover the gallery
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Old Master, 19th Century and Modern Drawings, Watercolours and Oil Sketches
More Works From This Gallery
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Study of a Man Wearing a Turban
Thomas WORLIDGE (Peterborough, 1700 - Hammersmith, 1776)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Letter to Viola Rackow, with a Still Life of a Champagne Cork and a Cigarette Butt
Horst JANSSEN (Hamburg, 1929 - Hamburg, 1995)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
A Standing Man with his Arms Folded
François BONVIN (Vaugirard, 1817 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1887)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Study of a Male Nude Holding a Hammer
François Boucher (Paris, 1703 - Paris, 1770)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Femme à la mante
Paul CEZANNE (Aix-en-Provence, 1839 - Aix-en-Provence, 1906)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Palimpsest
Austin Osman SPARE (London, 1886 - London, 1956)