Gwen John
23 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
Private Collection
Provenance
The Artist's Estate
With Anthony d'Offay, London
Selby McCreery, 1982
With Piano Nobile, London
Private Collection
Exhibitions
1946, London, Matthiesen Gallery, Gwen John Memorial Exhibition, 19 Sept. - 19 Oct. 1946, cat. no. 34
1946, Edinburgh, Scottish Society of Women Artists, Twenty-Second Exhibition, dates unknown
1951, London, Arts Council Gallery, British Painting 1925-1950: Second Anthology, 20 June - 20 Sept. 1951, cat. no. 65 (listed as 'Three Quarter Length of a Young Nun')
1958, London, Matthiesen Gallery, Gwen John 1876-1939, 14 Feb. - 8 March 1958, cat. no. 4
1961, London, Matthiesen Gallery, Gwen John, 8 June - 8 July 1961, cat. no. 21
1964, London, Faerber & Maison, Gwen John 1876-1939, 13 Nov. - 12 Dec. 1964, cat. no. 5
1982, London, Anthony d'Offay, Gwen John 1876-1939, 1 July - 22 Aug. 1982, cat. no. 9 (listed as 'Three Quarter Length of a Young Nun')
1985, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Gwen John: An Interior Life, 12 Sept. - 3 Nov. 1985, cat. no. 21, travelling to Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, 28 Nov. 1985 - 26 Jan. 1986 and New Haven, Center for British Art, 26 Feb. - 20 April 1986
1999, London, National Portrait Gallery, The Painter’s Eye, 16 April - 13 June 1999
2023, Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris, 13 May - 8 Oct. 2023, unnumbered
Literature
Cecily Langdale and David Fraser Jenkins, Gwen John: An Interior Life, exh. cat., Phaidon, cat. no. 21 (illus.)Cecily Langdale, Gwen John: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings, Yale University Press, 1987, cat. no. 57, p. 152, pl. 208 (illus.)
