The Property of a Lady
Augustus John, R.A.
Head of a Boy
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Lady
Augustus John, R.A.
1878 - 1961
Head of a Boy
signed John (lower right); inscribed (lower left)
charcoal on paper
unframed (sheet): 33.5 by 24.5cm.; 13¼ by 9½in.
framed: 51 by 46cm.; 20 by 18in.
Executed circa 1908.
We are grateful to Rebecca John for her assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.
The Leicester Galleries, London, where acquired by the Hon. Michael Astor (1916-1980) in 1948 and thence by descent to the present owner
The boy, probably called Demeter, was one of a band of Russian Coppersmiths from Baku Augustus John met in Cherbourg in 1908. ‘We spoke together in their language - wonderful people - like artists in a world of petits bourgeois’. (Letter to Will Rothenste quoted in Michael Holroyd, , Augustus John: The New Biography, 1996)
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