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18
LOVERS c.1866
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
White
chalk on brown paper, 35.6 x 25.4 (14 x 10)
Provenance:
unknown, although possibly as 25 above, lot 34 in the Laurence
Hodgson sale comprised three Studies of Figures in white chalk
on a brown ground.
Exhibited:
Fulham 1967 (8); Fulham 1983 (22).
A
seated naked man, at left, embraces and kisses a naked seated
female who leans towards him from the right, one of her legs
folded beneath the other.
Both
David Gould, in unpublished typewritten notes in Hammersmith
and Fulham Archives, and John Christian ( Fulham catalogue,
1967) point out the similarity between these two drawings
(25 and 18) and contemporary studies by Leighton. Christian
also draws attention to the ideal figure sketches of Albert
Moore and Whistler of the same period.
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