-
Artworks
Augustus John
Edith Lees, 1910, c.Graphite pencil on paper39.5 x 20 cm
15 1/2 x 7 3/4 inCopyright The ArtistWe 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. 23Literature
David Boyd Haycock, Augustus John and the First Crisis of Brilliance, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2024, cat. no. 23, pp. 66–67 (col. illus.)3of 3
PIANO NOBILE | Robert Travers (Works of Art) Ltd
96 & 129 Portland Road, London, W11 4LW
+44 (0)20 7229 1099 | info@piano-nobile.com
Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday by appointment only | Closed public holidays
Instagram 
Join the mailing list
