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17
STUDY for VENUS in LAUS VENERIS 1878
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
Pencil,
20.3 x 15.25 (8 x 6) Signed and dated, EBJ 1878 (lower left)
Provenance: lot 24 in the Edmund Davis sale included, together
with the drawings above, Head of a Woman - A Study,
1878, which seems likely to have been this drawing. If this
is the case the provenance is identical to 23a.
Exhibited:
Fulham 1967 (14, as Profile Study of a Girl's Head).
Literature: Fitzgerald, pp.182-3, repr. opp. p.144.
Profile
portrait of long necked, long nosed woman with parted lips,
facing to the right, her head supported by a pillow.
Almost
certainly the same model as in Study
for Laus Veneris (23b), and therefore a study for
Venus but reversed in relation to the finished painting.
Sir
Edmund Davis, who owned both the drawings 23b,
22a and 22b,
was an Australian born millionaire with interests in South
African mines. He was a major patron of Charles Ricketts and
Charles Shannon (see
44) for whom he built the artists' flats and studios at
Lansdowne House, Holland Park, in 1902, where Frederick Cayley
Robinson (see 36) also lived
from 1914. He must have been known by Cecil French, by reputation
if not personally.
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