Gwendolen John Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"Study of a Cat"
Title: Study of a Cat
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 20 x 24 in | Image Size: 16 x 20 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Gwendolen John was born 22 July 1876 in Pembrokeshire, Wales, sister of the painter Augustus John. She studied at the prestigious Slade School in London from 1894 to 1897 and then at Whistler’s School in Paris, where she continued to live from 1898.
Her early paintings, such as the Portrait of the Artist’s Sister Winifred (1897–98) and Dorelia in a Black Dress (1903–04), are painted using thin glazes in the traditional manner of the old masters.
Beginning with her series of paintings of Mère Poussepin, her style is characterised by thicker paint applied in small, mosaic- like touches. It became her habit to paint the same subject repeatedly. Her portraits are usually of anonymous female sitters seated in a three-quarter length format, with their hands in their laps.
John exhibited in Paris for the first time in 1919 at the Salon d’Automne, and exhibited regularly until the mid-1920s, after which time she became increasingly reclusive and painted less.
John’s drawings number in the thousands. In addition to studio work, she made many sketches and watercolours of women and children in church. Unlike her oil paintings of solitary women, these sketches frequently depict their subjects from behind and in groups. She also made many sketches of her cats.
