12th Jun, 2019 11:00
Modern British & Post-War Art
613
Ethel Gabain (1883-1950)
Ethel Gabain (1883-1950)
'Lassitude'
signed (lower right), titled (to reverse)
oil on canvas
48cm x 59cm.
Information:
The Sitter, Carmen Watson, sat for Gabain in over sixty paintings. Ethel Gabain gave a gushing interview to the Sunday Express in the same year: 'A Botticelli Smile - Carmen Watson, blonde, petite artist's model, is the most sought-after girl in London. She has been working 12 hours a day for six years, and is now booked up for three months. Long hair, punctuality, and an 'indefinable something' are my greatest assets, she said ... Artists tell me I am the Botticelli type. They say there is something about my smile they can't quite capture. So they go on trying ... Even Mr Gerald Kelly, who usually paints only his wife, did a portrait of me'.
Sold for £4,000
Estimated at £4,000 - £6,000
Ethel Gabain (1883-1950)
'Lassitude'
signed (lower right), titled (to reverse)
oil on canvas
48cm x 59cm.
Information:
The Sitter, Carmen Watson, sat for Gabain in over sixty paintings. Ethel Gabain gave a gushing interview to the Sunday Express in the same year: 'A Botticelli Smile - Carmen Watson, blonde, petite artist's model, is the most sought-after girl in London. She has been working 12 hours a day for six years, and is now booked up for three months. Long hair, punctuality, and an 'indefinable something' are my greatest assets, she said ... Artists tell me I am the Botticelli type. They say there is something about my smile they can't quite capture. So they go on trying ... Even Mr Gerald Kelly, who usually paints only his wife, did a portrait of me'.
Auction: Modern British & Post-War Art, 12th Jun, 2019
Modern British & Post-War Art
