EVELYN DE MORGAN
1855-1919
An Angel Piping to the Souls in Hell (circa 1910-1915)
Estimate $25,000 – $35,000
IMPORTANT ART FROM THE JOHN SCHAEFFER AO COLLECTION
EVELYN DE MORGAN
1855-1919
An Angel Piping to the Souls in Hell (circa 1910-1915)
oil on canvas
50.8 x 61 cm
- Lot Sold $32,000 (Hammer Price)
- $39,040 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Julian Hartnoll, London (label verso)
19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Sotheby's, New York, 9 February 1999, lot 108, illustrated
Mr John Schaeffer AO, Sydney, acquired from the above
Exhibited
An Exhibition of Pictures Painted by Evelyn De Morgan Exhibited for the Benefit of the British Red Cross and the Italian Croce Rossa, 17A Edith Grove, Fulham, London, 1916, no. 13
Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H. Schaeffer, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, 15 February – 16 August 2008
The John H. Schaeffer Collection of Victorian and European Art, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah, 26 August 2009 – 28 February 2010
Victorian Visions: Nineteenth Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 May – 29 August 2010, no. 35, illustrated
Literature
Catherine Gordon (ed.), Evelyn De Morgan Oil Paintings, De Morgan Foundation, London, 1997, no. 90, plate 94, p. 26
Elise Lawton Smith, Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, New Jersey/Associated University Presses, London, 2002, pp. 191-192, 230, note 115
Richard Beresford, Victorian Visions: Nineteenth Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 126, 127 (illustrated)
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