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AUGUSTUS JOHN, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)

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Lot 165 | AUGUSTUS JOHN, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)
AUGUSTUS JOHN, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)

The Tinkers

signed and dated 'John 1917' (lower right)

ink, watercolour and gouache on paper

14 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (37.5 x 47.7 cm.)

Executed in 1917.





Provenance

E.J. Gooding.

His sale; Christie's, London, 29 November 1918, lot 31, where purchased by Hugh Blaker, Isleworth.

Purchased by The Hon. John Fremantle (Lord Cottesloe) at the 1948 exhibition.



Literature

Matinee Programme for Miss Lena Ashwell's Concerts at Chelsea Palace, London, 20 March 1917, illustrated on the cover, as 'The Flight into Egypt'.

L. Browse, Augustus John Drawings, London, 1941, no. 51, illustrated, as 'The Flight into Egypt'.



Exhibited

Vienna, Secession, Masterpieces of English Painting from Three Centuries, September - November 1927, no. 242.

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, October - December 1928, no. 122.

Manchester, City Art Gallery, Exhibition of the Hugh Blaker Collection, May - June 1929, no. 118.

Brighton, Public Art Galleries, Catalogue of the Hugh Blaker Collection, September - October 1929, no. 101.

London, Leicester Galleries, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings Selected from the Collection of the Late Hugh Blaker, March 1937, no. 36.

London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works from the Hugh Blaker Collection, March 1948, no. 32.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by Augustus John, March - June 1954, no. 294, as 'The Tinkers, or The Flight into Egypt'.



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