Details
JOHN ATKINSON GRIMSHAW (BRITISH, 1836-1893)
Midsummer Night or Iris
signed and dated 'Atkinson Grimshaw. 1876' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 35 3/4 in. (61 x 91 cm.)
Provenance
with Coulter Galleries, York.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 14 June 1963, lot 138, as Midsummer Night.
with Ferrers Gallery, London, acquired at the above sale, until at least 1964.
Nell Dunn (b. 1936), London.
Her sale; Christie's, London, 6 March 1981, lot 38, as Midsummer Night.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 November 1996, lot 308.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
D‌. Bromfield, Atkinson Grimshaw: 1836-1893, 1979 (?), p. 39, under no. 63, as Iris.
A. Robertson, Atkinson Grimshaw, Oxford, 1988, p. 59, as Iris.
C. Wood, Fairies in Victorian Painting, Suffolk, 2000, p. 128.
J. Sellers, ed., Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight, London, 2011, p. 63.
J. Martineau, ed., Victorian Fairy Painting, London, 1997, p. 142, as Iris.
Exhibited
London, Ferrers Gallery, Grimshaw, November 1964, no. 5, illustrated, as Iris.
San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor Museum, on long-term loan.
Details
JOHN ATKINSON GRIMSHAW (BRITISH, 1836-1893)
Midsummer Night or Iris
signed and dated 'Atkinson Grimshaw. 1876' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 35 3/4 in. (61 x 91 cm.)
Provenance
with Coulter Galleries, York.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 14 June 1963, lot 138, as Midsummer Night.
with Ferrers Gallery, London, acquired at the above sale, until at least 1964.
Nell Dunn (b. 1936), London.
Her sale; Christie's, London, 6 March 1981, lot 38, as Midsummer Night.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 November 1996, lot 308.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
D‌. Bromfield, Atkinson Grimshaw: 1836-1893, 1979 (?), p. 39, under no. 63, as Iris.
A. Robertson, Atkinson Grimshaw, Oxford, 1988, p. 59, as Iris.
C. Wood, Fairies in Victorian Painting, Suffolk, 2000, p. 128.
J. Sellers, ed., Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight, London, 2011, p. 63.
J. Martineau, ed., Victorian Fairy Painting, London, 1997, p. 142, as Iris.
Exhibited
London, Ferrers Gallery, Grimshaw, November 1964, no. 5, illustrated, as Iris.
San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor Museum, on long-term loan.
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