Tuesday 11 October 2022
Frank Dobson RA, British 1886-1963 - Portrait of a young girl, c.1925;
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Frank Dobson RA,
British 1886-1963 -
Portrait of a young girl, c.1925;
pencil on paper, 34.9 x 24.8 cm (ARR)
Provenance: Phillips, London, 9th May 1988, lot 161, through Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., Fine Art Dealers, London, according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame.
Note: Sir Nicholas Goodison notes: This may (or may not) be a portrait of Mary Bussell, daughter of a picture dealer, who sat for a number of artists. She was the subject of several of Dobson's drawings (see Neville Jason and Lisa Thompson-Pharaoh, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, Henry Moore Foundation, 1994, p.71-3). She was twenty years younger than Dobson. His love affair with her began in the mid-1920s, and they were married in 1931.
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