
Ingram Reid
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Provenance
Private Collection
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1993, lot 119 (as Double Portrait), sold in aid of the Tate Gallery St Ives
The Ian Angus Estate
Literature
Bruce Laughton, William Coldstream, Yale University Press, London, 2004, p.291, fig.153 (ill.b&w)
Peter T. J. Rumley, William Coldstream Catalogue Raisonné, Bristol, 2018, p.137, cat.no.181
This work was painted in the home of Ian and Ann, on Church Row, Hampstead, where Coldstream had his painting room on the top floor.
All the 'background' elements in the painting are significant: behind Ann and Ian are paintings by Adrian Stokes who was Ann's first husband and who was associated with Coldstream from the days of the Euston Road School. Between the couple is an orange tree, a frequent subject of Coldstream's and which in the context stands as a self-portrait.