JOSEPH EDWARD SOUTHALL, R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1861-1944)

Self-portrait, bust-length, wearing a fez

Details

JOSEPH EDWARD SOUTHALL, R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1861-1944)
Self-portrait, bust-length, wearing a fez
signed with monogram and dated '1943' (lower left)
pencil on paper
12 7⁄8 x 8 ¾ in. (32.8 x 22 cm.)

Provenance

Lyndon Goodwin Harris; Christie's, London, 24 January 2007, lot 192 (part).

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Lot Essay

The present drawing was executed a year before Southall's death at the age of 83 and may well have been his last work of this kind. He was in the habit of wearing a fez; for other examples, see Joseph Southall 1861-1944 Artist-Craftsman, exhibition catalogue, London, 1980, pp. 55-56, nos. E3 (1896) and E5 (1933) (both illustrated).

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