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Reclining Woman
Details
John Melville (1902-1986)
Reclining Woman
signed and dated 'John Melville. 1934' (lower left)
oil on board
19 x 23 in. (48.2 x 58.5 cm.)
Painted in 1934.
Reclining Woman
signed and dated 'John Melville. 1934' (lower left)
oil on board
19 x 23 in. (48.2 x 58.5 cm.)
Painted in 1934.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 1990, lot 279, where purchased by Dr Jeffrey Sherwin.
Literature
S. Levy and T. Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, pp. 34, 188, illustrated.
J. Sherwin, From France to England, British Surrealism Opened Up, Bradford, 2014, p. 158, illustrated.
J. Sherwin, From France to England, British Surrealism Opened Up, Bradford, 2014, p. 158, illustrated.
Exhibited
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, July – November 2009, exhibition not numbered.
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, British Surrealism Unlocked: Works from the Sherwin Collection, April – June 2014, exhibition not numbered.
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, British Surrealism Unlocked: Works from the Sherwin Collection, April – June 2014, exhibition not numbered.
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.
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