Augustus John, Edith Lees, 1910, c.

Augustus John

Edith Lees, 1910, c.

Graphite pencil on paper

39.5 x 20 cm
15 1/2 x 7 3/4 in

We are grateful to Rebecca John for identifying the sitter as Edith Lees known as Lyndra, the wife of the artist Derwent Lees and sometime model of Augustus John’s. She...

We are grateful to Rebecca John for identifying the sitter as Edith Lees known as Lyndra, the wife of the artist Derwent Lees and sometime model of Augustus John’s. She sat for John in a series of drawings in 1910, the probable date of the present work (see National Museums and Galleries of Wales Themes and Variations-The Drawings of Augustus John 1996 pp.60-61). Lyndra (nee Edith Harriet Price) married Lees in 1913. She died in 1984.

Provenance

At Christie's, London, 12 June 1981, lot 42
At Christie's, London, 4 March 1983, lot 93
Gerard O’Keeffe, Kanturk, Co. Cork
Private Collection

Exhibitions

London, Piano Nobile, Augustus John and the First Crisis of Brilliance, 26 April – 13 July 2024, cat. no. 23

Literature

David Boyd Haycock, Augustus John and the First Crisis of Brilliance, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2024, cat. no. 23, pp. 66–67 (col. illus.)

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