Lot 98: AGNES NOYES GOODSIR (1864-1939)

Couch and Cushions
indistinctly signed 'Agnes Goodsir' (lower left)
oil on canvas
45 x 37 cm

Sydney, Macquarie Galleries, Agnes Goodsir Exhibition, 1927, cat. no. 31 (17 gns)
Melbourne, Fine Art Society Gallery, (no date), cat. no. 37 (25 gns)

anon, sale: Lawsons, Sydney, 1974
Acquired from the above by the present owner

After studying painting in Bendigo (under Arthur Woodward) Goodsir travelled to Paris in 1900 and continued her studies at Delachuse's, Colorossi's and Julian's. She exhibited at both the Old and New Salons. From 1909 she lived with an American girl, Rachel, who Agnes nicknamed 'Cherry' and who became the subject of many of her portraits until the artist's death in 1939.

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