Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Figure in church
JOHN, Gwen (Bu Gwen John yn mynychu Ysgol Gelfyddyd Gain y Slade yn Llundain rhwng 1895 a 1898, a bu'n astudio am gyfnod byr ym Mharis. Ym 1903, aeth gyda Dorelia McNeill ar daith gerdded trwy Ffrainc. Erbyn dechrau 1904, roedd wedi ymsefydlu ym Mharis. | Gwen John attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London between 1895 and 1898, and studied briefly in Paris. In 1903, she accompanied Dorelia McNeill on a walking tour through France. By the beginning of 1904, she had settled in Paris.)
This work began as a drawing done at the church in Meudon and was worked up later in the studio. Gwen John would sit at the back of the church sketching fellow parishioners. As a result many of these numerous works from 1910s to 1920s show figures from behind or from the side. These are not studies for oil paintings, but finished works in their own right.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 15313
Creation/Production
JOHN, Gwen
Date:
Acquisition
Purchase, 29/7/1976
Measurements
Height
(cm): 16.7
Width
(cm): 12.9
Techniques
pencil on paper
Material
pencil
Paper
Location
In store
Comments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.