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15
NUDE FEMALE STUDY
c.1890
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
Black,
white and red chalk on red paper, 28.5 x 15.9 (11.25 x 6.25)
Provenance:
unknown.
Exhibited:
Fulham 1967 (19); Fulham 1983 (10).
Three-quarter
length back view of naked woman with coiffed hair, head turned
towards the left.
John
Christian has suggested, in a catalogue, Drawings from
the Cecil French Bequest at Kelmscott House (William Morris
Society), 1988-9, that the study may relate to a lost painting,
Mermaids, which may be seen in a photograph of Burne-Jones's
studio which appeared in The Art Annual, 1894, p.31. He also
points out, in the Arts Council 1975 catalogue, under number
322, that this particular technique, with its combination
of coloured chalks on a coloured paper, was widely used by
Burne-Jones in the 1880s and 90s.
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