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Portrait of Gillian, the Artist's Wife
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Height
80 cm (31 1/2")
Width
54 cm (21 1/4")
Framed Height
100.5 cm (39 1/2")
Framed Width
79 cm (31")
JAMES STROUDLEY
(1906-1985)
Portrait of Gillian, the Artist’s Wife
Charcoal and coloured chalks tinted paper
by 80 by 54 cm., 29 ½ by 21 ½ in.
(frame size 100.5 by 79 cm., 39 ½ by 31 in.)
Provenance:
The artist’s studio sale, Christie’s London, 2005;
Abbott & Holder, London;
Private collection.
Leonard James Stroudley was born and lived in London. He studied at Clapham School of Art between 1923-27, and then at the Royal College of Art, 1927-30, his teachers included William Rothenstein and Allan Gwynne-Jones. He won a travelling scholarship to Italy, where he was inspired by the classical Italian painters, notably Giotto and Piero della Francesca. Initially a figure artist, he moving increasingly towards abstraction from the 1950s. Stroudley exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists and elsewhere, having numerous one-man shows. Works by him are in the collections of Bradford, Brighton, Coventry and Rochdale.
The present drawing is a study for the artist’s oil portrait of his third wife, Gillian Thain. She was a painter and printer maker, having studied at St Martin’s School of Art, 1945-51. The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and national Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, hold examples of her work.
(1906-1985)
Portrait of Gillian, the Artist’s Wife
Charcoal and coloured chalks tinted paper
by 80 by 54 cm., 29 ½ by 21 ½ in.
(frame size 100.5 by 79 cm., 39 ½ by 31 in.)
Provenance:
The artist’s studio sale, Christie’s London, 2005;
Abbott & Holder, London;
Private collection.
Leonard James Stroudley was born and lived in London. He studied at Clapham School of Art between 1923-27, and then at the Royal College of Art, 1927-30, his teachers included William Rothenstein and Allan Gwynne-Jones. He won a travelling scholarship to Italy, where he was inspired by the classical Italian painters, notably Giotto and Piero della Francesca. Initially a figure artist, he moving increasingly towards abstraction from the 1950s. Stroudley exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists and elsewhere, having numerous one-man shows. Works by him are in the collections of Bradford, Brighton, Coventry and Rochdale.
The present drawing is a study for the artist’s oil portrait of his third wife, Gillian Thain. She was a painter and printer maker, having studied at St Martin’s School of Art, 1945-51. The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and national Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, hold examples of her work.
Height
80 cm (31 1/2")
Width
54 cm (21 1/4")
Framed Height
100.5 cm (39 1/2")
Framed Width
79 cm (31")
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