ID 965047
Lot 29 | GLYN WARREN PHILPOT, R.A. (1884-1937)
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
Seated Model in the Studio (Henry Thomas)
signed with initials 'G.P.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76 x 63.5 cm.)
Philpot, G.W.
Painted in 1936.
Provenance
Gabrielle Cross, the artist's niece, and by descent to Rosemary Smalley.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 June 2004, lot 57, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
D. Philpot, Manuscript Catalogue of Paintings by Glyn Philpot, circa 1938-57, p. 33.
A.C. Sewter, Glyn Philpot 1884-1937, London, 1951, p. XI, no. 104, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of British Paintings 1750 - 1950, London, Henry Wyndham Fine Art, 1990, n.p., no. 17, illustrated.
S. Martin, exhibition catalogue, Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit, Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, 2022, p. 188, fig. 203.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Summer Exhibition, July - September 1936, no. 82.
London, Redfern Gallery, Figure Pieces, Portraits, Landscapes and Flower-Pieces in Oil and Watercolour by Glyn Philpot, November 1937, no. 2.
London, Tate Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture by the late Glyn Philpot, July - August 1938, no. 57.
Warsaw, British Council, Instytut Propagandy Sztuki, Contemporary British Art, January - February 1939: this exhibition travelled to Helsinki, Kunsthalle Helsinki, March 1939; and Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, April - May 1939.
London, National Gallery, British Painting since Whistler, March - August 1940, no. 119.
London, Leighton House, Retrospective Exhibition: Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by Glyn Warren Philpot, February 1959, no. 58.
Worthing, Worthing Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Glyn Philpot, R.A., September - October 1962, no. 42.
London, Henry Wyndham Fine Art, Exhibition of British Paintings 1750 - 1950, June - July 1990, no. 17.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
| Artist: | Glyn Warren Philpot (1884 - 1937) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Glyn Warren Philpot (1884 - 1937) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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