JOHN CECIL STEPHENSON (1889-1965)

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Lot 117 | JOHN CECIL STEPHENSON (1889-1965)
JOHN CECIL STEPHENSON (1889-1965)

Vortex No. 2

signed, inscribed and dated 'JC STEPHENSON 1939/"VORTEX" No. 2' (on the reverse), inscribed again '6 Mall Studios Hampstead NW3 Parkhill Road' (on the stretcher)

tempera on canvas laid on panel

18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)

Painted in 1939.





Provenance

with Marlborough Fine Art, London.

John Bruckland.

His estate sale; Christie's, London, 26 March 1993, lot 2.

with Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

S. Guthrie, The Life and Art of John Cecil Stephenson, Grange-over-Sands, 1997, p. 83, as 'Vortex II'.



Exhibited

Leeds, City Art Gallery, catalogue not traced.

London, Drian Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Cecil Stephenson, November - December 1966, no. 19.
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