ID 1308521
Lot 102 | WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM (1912-2004)
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
Gurnard's Head, Winter
signed and dated 'W Barns Graham 1949' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'Gurnards Head, (Winter)/W Barns Graham 1949' (on the reverse)
ink, watercolour, gouache and coloured chalk on paper
9 ¾ x 17 ½ in. (24.7 x 44.4 cm.)
Executed in 1949.
Provenance
with Gordon Hepworth Fine Art, Exeter.
with Belgrave Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 13 June 1997, lot 392.
with Porthmeor Gallery, St Ives, where purchased by Lord Myners.
Exhibited
St Ives, Castle Inn, St Ives Society of Artists: Winter Collection, January 1949, catalogue not traced.
Penzance, Scottish Arts Council, Newlyn Art Gallery, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Retrospective 1940-1989, June - July 1989, no. 11, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Edinburgh, City Art Centre, October - November 1989; Perth, Museum and Art Gallery, December 1989 - January 1990; St Andrews, Crawford Art Centre, January - February 1990; and Ayr, Maclaurin Art Gallery, May 1990.
| Artist: | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
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