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Self portrait, nude, sketching
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.)
Gwen John made several nude self-portraits in her room at 87 rue du Cherche-Midi, Paris. She wrote to her friend Ursula Tyrwhitt, ‘I am doing some drawings in my glass, myself & the room … I first draw in the thing then trace it on to a clean piece of paper by holding it against the window.’
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 3556
Creation/Production
JOHN, Gwen
Date: 1908 ca
Acquisition
Purchase, 29/7/1976
Measurements
Height
(cm): 24.1
Width
(cm): 16.7
Height
(in): 9
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
pencil on paper
Material
pencil
Paper
Location
In store
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