Pastel on paper
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Madame Suggia
Purchased 1929
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1 May 2018 – 30 September 2019
2019-09-30
1 May 2018 – 30 September 2018
2018-09-30
2018-05-01
Poole Museum (Poole, UK)
1 May 2019 – 30 September 2019
2019-09-30
2019-05-01
The Salisbury Museum (Salisbury, UK)
http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk
2018-05-01
Augustus John
Loan-out
Study for Madame Suggia
support: 470 × 318 mm
frame: 643 × 505 × 20 mm
Purchased 1929
<p><b>N04448</b> STUDY FOR MADAME SUGGIA <i>c.</i> 1920
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<br/>Inscr. ‘John’ b.r.
<br/>Charcoal on grey paper, 18 1/2×12 1/2 (47×32).
<br/>Purchased from the French Gallery (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1929.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Browse, 1941, pl.52; <i>John O'London's Weekly</i>, LVIII, 26 March 1954, p.309.</p>
<p>At least three <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of Mme Suggia are known to exist. It is unlikely that this particular drawing is a sketch for the Tate Gallery picture; Mme Suggia said that John abandoned an earlier <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> in which the 'cellist looks over her left shoulder, and this drawing is most probably a preliminary sketch for that portrait. The other two drawings used to belong to Mme Suggia herself, who on her death bequeathed them to Hugo Pitman. One of them (<i>c.</i> 1920) is almost an exact replica of the Tate Gallery drawing and both were most likely shown at the National Portrait Society's exhibition in the Grafton Galleries, 1921–2 (272 and 273). The third drawing, in which the 'cellist looks over her right shoulder, is obviously of a later date (<i>c.</i> 1923), and from the inscription at the bottom of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a> it was very likely given to Mme Suggia by the artist himself after the portrait was completed. Both the drawings belonging to Mme Suggia were reproduced by her agents in concert bills.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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adults arts and entertainment body fine arts and music head / face individuals: female instrument, cello musician named individuals nationality objects people portraits Portuguese society Suggia, Guilhermina woman work and occupations