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Lot 225: JOHN LATHAM

Est: £5,000 GBP - £7,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 04, 2010

Item Overview

Description

JOHN LATHAM 1921-2006 PORTRAIT OF MRS JAMES CATNEY signed, titled and inscribed on an exhibition label on the reverse oil on board 63.5 by 49.5cm.; 25 by 19½in. Executed in 1957.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, 1957, unnumbered catalogue.

Literature

John A. Walker, John Latham: The Spray Gun and the Cosmos, exh.cat., Delaye/Saltoun, London, 2008, p.14, illustrated.

Provenance

Sale, Sotheby's London, 13th December 2007, lot 120, where acquired by the present owner

Notes


The sitter's husband, James Catney, was employed by Madame Tussaud's to photograph celebrities for modelling into wax works.

We are grateful to Barbara Steveni Latham for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of this lot and identification of the sitter.

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