Lot 37: Self-Portrait with Electric Light Bulb

John Wonnacott (b. 1940) Self-Portrait with Electric Light Bulb titled and inscribed 'Self-Portrait BULLWOOD HALL HACKLEY ESSEX' (on the reverse) oil on board 79 x 30¼in. (201 x 76.5cm.) Painted in 1964-74

Manchester, City Art Gallery, The Pursuit of the Real, British Figurative Painting from Sickert to Bacon, March-April 1990, no. 22. This exhibition later travelled to London, Barbican Art Gallery, May-July 1990 and Glasgow, City Art Gallery, July-September 1990.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The School of London and Their Friends: the Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, October 2000-January 2001, no. 69 (illustrated in colour, p. 115). This exhibition later travelled to Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art, January-May 2001.

Thomas Agnew, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989.

SELECTED WORKS FROM THE ELAINE AND MELVIN MERIANS COLLECTION

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