Sir Edxard Coley Burne-Jones, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898), The Call of Perseus.  Photo Sotheby's

black and white chalk over pencil on brown paper; 48 by 32cm., 19 by 12½in. Lot 88. Estimation 15,000-20,000 GBP

PROVENANCE: Shickman Gallery, New York;
Sotheby's, London, 19 June 1990, lot 35;
Private collection

EXHIBITED: Dublin, Irish International Exhibition, 1909, no.576;
Hofstra University, Emily Lowe Gallery, The Male Nude, 1973, no.32;
Binghampton, State University of New York, New York University Art Gallery, Finch College Museum of Art and Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Strictly Academic, Life Drawing in the Nineteenth Century, 1974, no.40

NOTE DE CATALOGUE: This dramatic drawing, influenced by Burne-Jones' study of Michelangelo, was probably made in 1877 when the artist produced a gouache version of The Call of Perseus, the first of the famous series of paintings depicting the story of the classical hero which had been commissioned by Arthur James Balfour to decorate the music room of his London mansion at 4 Carlton Gardens. The series of gouaches are at Southampton Art Gallery whilst the unfinished series in oils is at the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie.

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