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DESIGN for a FAN, GIRL BATHERS IN A BOAT. c.1905-10
CHARLES
HASLEWOOD SHANNON, R.A.
1863 - 1937
Oil
on paper in a fan-shaped mount, 23.5 x 48.25 ( 9.25 x 19)
Provenance:
acquired by Cecil French from the artist's estate, 1937.
A
naked girl, facing left, sits on the prow of a narrow dinghy
which crosses the painting diag-onally from lower right where
a further naked girl in the body of the boat is pulling on
her stocking.
A
lithograph of 1908, The Sea Coast, contains the same
motif of a woman pulling on her stocking after bathing.
Shannon
designed and printed seven lithographs of fans between 1906
and 1909. He was possibly inspired by the success of his friend
Charles Conder (1868-1909) whose painted fans, in watercolour
on silk, were highly sought after in the late 1890s and early
1900s. Shannon re-produced two of Conder's paintings in The
Pageant, of which he was the Art Editor, in 1896 and 1897
and Ricketts was the author of a tribute In Memory of Charles
Conder, published in the Burlington Magazine in April
1909. Cecil French owned at least two of Conder's watercolours,
The Statue Fan and Beauvais, both bequeathed
to Birmingham City Art Gallery.
French
owned a "large album of lithographs by C.H.Shannon", bequeathed
to a friend in his will.
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