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DAVIS & LANGDALE COMPANY, INC GWEN JOHN

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NEW YORK CITY — Davis & Langdale Company announces an exhibition of works by Gwen John (1876–1939) on view from May 6 to June 6.

“Gwen John: Works on Paper,” consists of about 40 works from every period of the artist’s career, most of which have just been released by her estate. Among them are gouaches and watercolors of women and children in church, where she spent countless hours sketching; and drawings of peasant children, from a stay in Brittany, and there will also be a group of cat studies, including a drawing of her cat, Edgar Quinet, who is the subject of most of her cat drawings.

John is acknowledged to be one of the foremost British artists of the Twentieth Century. Born in Wales, she is the sister of the also famous artist Augustus John. After studying at the Slade School in London, she spent her entire adult life in France. Her work has been seriously collected in America and Britain, and she is represented in numerous public museums, such as, in New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the British Art Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; the Tate Gallery, London; the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; and the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

Gwen John and her brother were the subject of the show “Augustus John and Gwen John” at Tate Britain, London, 2004, which Cecily Langdale, a partner in Davis & Langdale Company, co-curated. Langdale is also the author of Gwen John: with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings, published by Yale University Press in 1987.

Davis & Langdale is at 231 East 60th Street. For further information, 212-838-0333.