The Sweet Siesta of a Summer's Day
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Oil on canvas
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40.5 x 51 cm
(15.9 x 20.1 in) - Signed lower left J.W.Godward.91
- 1891
provenance
Arthur Tooth and Son, London. Knight, Frank and Rutley, London, 15 October 1958, lot172 (49½ gns.). Williams and Son, London. Percy Polak Ltd. London, 16 November 1958 (55 gns.) Harrods, London. Private collection, Warwickshire Richard Green, London, 1995 Private collection, U.S.A., 1996-2008
exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1891, no. 908 London, Arthur Tooth and Son, Winter Exhibition, 1891, no. 4.
literature
Henry Blackburn, Academy Notes 1891, London, 1891, p. 22. Vern Swanson, John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, Woodbridge, 1997, p. 182, no. 9, illustrated p. 41, pl. 12.
more about John William Godward
John William Godward
b. 09.08.1861
Wimbledon, England
d. 13.12.1922
London, England
Wimbledon, England
d. 13.12.1922
London, England
John William Godward can be considered the best of the last great European painters that straightforwardly embraced Roman and Greek Classical antiquity in their art. In his work we can see the final summation of half a millennium of Classical antique influence on Western Painting. His tragic suicide in 1922 is illustrative for the demise of this tradition, that more or less died with hi . . .
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