Oil paint on canvas
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An Old Lady
Purchased 1941
actions: postures and motions
adults
book - non-specific
chair
clothing and personal items
domestic
furnishings
hat, cap
individuals: female
interior - non-specific
interiors
objects
people
portraits
reading, writing, printed matter
sitting
woman, old
painting oil paint canvas
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
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
An Old Lady
support: 686 × 558 mm
frame: 770 × 640 × 58 mm
Purchased 1941
<p><b>N05259</b> AN OLD LADY 1899
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 26 3/4×22 (68×56).
<br/>Purchased from the Leger Galleries (Knapping Fund) 1941.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Arthur Clifton; Mrs Clifton, who sold it to Agnew's; Leger Galleries.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> John, 1952, p.147.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Rothenstein, 1944, pl.4; Allan Gwynne-Jones, <i>Portrait Painters</i>, 1950, pl.133.</p>
<p>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/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a>, at different times known as ‘John's Aunt’, ‘John's Mother’ and ‘John's Grandmother’, was John's first commission in portraiture. The fee was fixed at forty pounds, half of which was paid in advance. Because John got bored with his subject and because the old lady became restless the artist left it unfinished and the lady got her portrait for half price. The artist could not remember the name of the subject, and Mrs Clifton, who had the picture in her possession for many years, thinks that the title ‘John's Landlady’ would be more correct.</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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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults book - non-specific chair clothing and personal items domestic furnishings hat, cap individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors objects people portraits reading, writing, printed matter sitting woman, old