GWEN JOHN (1876 1939) Landscape with Trees

Sale 2696 - Lot 98

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GWEN JOHN (1876 - 1939)
Landscape with Trees.

Watercolor and pencil on paper, circa 1915. 245x290 mm; 9¾x11⅜ inches. Signed in watercolor, lower left.

Provenance
Davis & Langdale Company, Inc. New York (label).
Private collection, Washington, D.C.

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Additional Details

This work on paper likely depicts a view of the Bois de Meudon observatory park close to Gwen John's Terre Neuve studio. Cecily Langdale, in Gwen John (1987), notes that similarly drawn landscapes can be seen in the background of drawings done of Breton and Meudon children from the late 1910's. John settled in Meudon in 1910, at 29 rue Terre Neuve; her studio, the street, and her surroundings appear in many of her works. This physical transition coincided with a spiritual one; John started to study Catholicism in Meudon. Sketches from church that are from the same period as the present work, were originally pencil drawings from life to which John added delicate, translucent washes of thinly applied color in her studio.