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TITLE:
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Euphemia
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WORK DATE:
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1907
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CATEGORY:
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Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)
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MATERIALS:
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Pencil
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SIZE:
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h: 6.5 x w: 4.8 in / h: 16.5 x w: 12.2 cm
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STYLE:
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Modern
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DESCRIPTION:
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This fine early drawing of Henry Lamb's wife Euphemia (née Nina Forest) shows John at the height of his powers as a draughtsman. Euphemia was the muse of numerous artists and writers of the period and her adventurous love life was the source of fascination for many including Virginia Woolf. The arch-occultist, Aleister Crowley, wrote 'She was incomparably beautiful. Augustus John has painted her again and again, and no more loveliness has ever adorned any canvas. She was capable of stimulating the greatest extravagance of passion.
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PROVENANCE:
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Edwin John (the Artist's son). Collection inventory number 2564. Original label verso
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