Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Chantrey Bequest
Collection
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Miss Jean Werner Laurie
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1931
actions: postures and motions
adults
clothing and personal items
dress
individuals: female
Laurie, Jean Werner
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
sitting
woman
painting oil paint canvas
1 July 2005 – 30 September 2005
2005-09-30
1 July 2005 – 30 September 2005
2005-09-30
2005-07-01
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery (Bedford, UK)
http://www.cecilhigginsartgallery.org
2005-07-01
Angels in the Studio: The Women of the Slade School
Loan-out
9 October 2023 – 12 May 2024
2024-05-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2023-10-09
Ethel Walker: Female Utopias
Collection based display
Miss Jean Werner Laurie
support: 610 × 508 mm
frame: 727 × 627 × 70 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1931
<p><b>N04669</b> MISS JEAN WERNER LAURIE 1927–8
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 24×20 (61×51).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist through the Lefevre Galleries 1931.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., winter 1928 (214); R.A., 1930 (244); Alex. Reid and Lefevre, April 1931 (11); <i>Anthology of English Painting 1900–1931</i>, French Gallery, November 1931 (70); R.A., 1932 (593).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Apollo</i>, XIII, 1931, p.307; John Rothenstein, <i>Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith</i>, 1952, pl.8, facing p.80.</p>
<p>The sitter was a daughter of the publisher Werner Laurie. 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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> probably dates from 1927–8. An earlier portrait of the same sitter was exhibited at the Goupil Gallery <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/salon" title="Glossary definition for 'Salon'"><span>Salon</span></a>, 1926 (163), as ‘Jean Werner Laurie-A Sketch’, and possibly another portrait of her was included in the <i>Summer Exhibition of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/modernism" title="Glossary definition for 'Modernism'"><span>Modern Art</span></a></i>, Goupil Gallery, June 1931 (174), as ‘Jean’; both were unsold at the end of the exhibition. The artist also lent a portrait of Miss Laurie to the British Council's <i>Empire Exhibition</i>, Johannesburg, 1936 (764).</p>
<p>A portrait on board, 13 1/2×11 in., of Miss Betty Werner Laurie was shown at the Leicester Galleries in February 1929 (13) and reappeared at Sotheby's, 17 February 1954 (111).</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, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults clothing and personal items dress individuals: female Laurie, Jean Werner named individuals objects people portraits sitting woman