Lot 23: AR Ethel Gabain (British, 1883-1950) Si les bijoux étaient indiscrets

Ethel Gabain
(British, 1883-1950)
Si les bijoux étaient indiscrets (Wright 138) Lithograph, 1914, on wove; together with another four lithographs: 'Le Coin du Canapé' (W.140), 1914, 'Music' (W.174), 1916, 'L'Invitation' (W. 191), 1917 and 'Le Roman' (W.224),1921, each signed in pencil, published by the artist in an edition of 24 (apart from 'Le Roman', published in an edition of 42), with full margins, 432 x 280mm (17 x 11in)(SH)(and smaller)(unframed)(5)

Ethel Gabain's first lithographs were published in 1906. Colnaghi became her dealer in 1914. Her compositions were often set in her domestic surroundings where young women, often her sisters, reoccurred as her subject matter.With technical brilliance and emotional subtlety, she produced images that convey an array of emotions and ambiguities that make her work distinctive and stand in contrast to the stylistic tendencies of many portraits of women at this time.