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Lot 1038

John Duncan Fergusson, RBA
(British, 1874-1961)
Mademoiselle Dryden 76 x 63.5 cm. (29 15/16 x 25 in.)

16 – 31 August 2011, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

£100,000 - £150,000

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John Duncan Fergusson, RBA (British, 1874-1961)

Mademoiselle Dryden
signed 'JD Fergusson'/no 26 Gypsy Girl' (verso)
oil on canvas
76 x 63.5 cm. (29 15/16 x 25 in.)

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Matthew E Taylor, KStJ, FSA
Sale; Christie's, Glasgow, 11 December 1986, lot 275

EXHIBITED:
Possibly at the Connell Gallery, London, May 1918, no. 28

Elizabeth Dryden was an American sent to Paris in 1905 by her employer, Rodman Wanamaker, to write fashion reviews for his department store trade magazine. These were to be illustrated by her friend Anne Estelle Rice. Both women sat for Fergusson on numerous occasions, and the striking Elizabeth was immortalised in two of the artist's best works of the period, La Cocarde and Le Chapeau Jaune. Here, however, she is shown clad not in the latest couture but a red scarf to keep out the chill, a painter's smock loose around her shoulders.

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