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Ithell Colquhoun (British, 1906-1988) Nativity 41 x 51 cm. (16 1/8 x 20 in.) (Painted in 1929) image 1

Ithell Colquhoun (British, 1906-1988) Nativity 41 x 51 cm. (16 1/8 x 20 in.) (Painted in 1929) image 2

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Ithell Colquhoun
(British, 1906-1988)
Nativity 41 x 51 cm. (16 1/8 x 20 in.)

Blazing a Trail: Modern British Women

20 September 2023, 15:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

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Ithell Colquhoun (British, 1906-1988)

Nativity
inscribed '64' (lower right); signed and further inscribed 'ROME SCHOLARSHIP IN/MURAL PAINTING/ I. Colquhoun/10 Charlbert St/N.W.8' (verso); further signed, titled and dated 'ITHELL COLQUHOUN. NATIVITY c.1929.' (partially visible, on canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
41 x 51 cm. (16 1/8 x 20 in.)
Painted in 1929

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1980, lot 298
Sale; Bonhams, London, 20 October 1994, lot 57
Sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 March 1995, lot 126
Sale; Phillips, London 1 October 1996, lot 241
Sale; Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 20 September 2005, lot 43, where acquired by the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
London, Piccadilly Gallery, Some Unusual By-ways in British Art 1890-1940, 15 April–17 May 1980, cat.no.26

Literature
Richard Shillitoe, Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature, 2009, cat.no.25, p.169

Together with a copy of a letter from Toni del Renzio, Ithell Colquhoun's husband, stating the work was created circa 1929 whilst Colquhoun was a student at the Slade. The number 64 on the front of the work can be found on a number of other works from the same period at the Slade and are thought to relate either to a competition into which the work may have been entered, or her identification number at the Slade.

We are grateful to Dr Richard Shillitoe for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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