Graphite and watercolour on paper
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Dorelia
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
clothing and personal items
dress
hands clasped
headscarf
individuals: female
McNeill, Dorothy, ‘Dorelia’
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
standing
woman
paper unique graphite watercolour
29 September 2004 – 15 May 2005
2005-05-15
29 September 2004 – 9 January 2005
2005-01-09
2004-09-29
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
12 February 2005 – 15 May 2005
2005-05-15
2005-02-12
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (Cardiff, UK)
2004-09-29
Gwen John and Augustus John
Exhibition
Dorelia
support: 501 × 354 mm
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
<p><b>N05158</b> DORELIA <i>c.</i> 1908
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<br/>Inscr. ‘John.’ b.r.
<br/>Charcoal and wash, 19 3/4×8 3/4 (50×22).
<br/>Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> (?) Lady Ottoline Morrell; Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) C.A.S., <i>Advanced Art</i>, Derby, April–June 1920 (6 or 10), as ‘Study of a Woman’; British Council, <i>Empire Exhibition</i>, Johannesburg, 1936 (503), as ‘Standing Woman’; Arts Council tour, 1948–9 (77).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Browse, 1941, pl.33, as ‘Dorelia holding up her Skirt’; <i>Studio</i>, CXXII, 1941, p.85, as ‘Standing Woman’.</p>
<p>See <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/john-dorelia-n05157" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05157</span></a>. This <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>drawing</span></a> may have been the one lent by Lady Ottoline Morrell to the C.A.S. exhibition at Derby in 1920.</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</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults clothing and personal items dress hands clasped headscarf individuals: female McNeill, Dorothy, ‘Dorelia’ named individuals objects people portraits standing woman