Lot 115: AR Sir William Coldstream (British, 1908-1987) Nude Study for Standing Nude

Sir William Coldstream (British, 1908-1987)
Nude Study for Standing Nude dated '1.6.77' (upper right)pencil28 x 20cm (11 x 7 7/8in).together with two further pencil studies by the same hand, The Arena at Arles (1947) and Broken Bridges over the Arno at Pisa (1944)(2)

Provenance: Dr Bruce Laughton, and thence by descentPrivate Collection, U.K. Literature: Bruce Laughton, The Euston Road School: A Study in Objective Painting, Scholar Press, Aldershot, 1986, (ill.b&w, fig.144, p.246, Broken Bridges over the Arno at Pisa)Bruce Laughton, William Coldstream, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, (ill.b&w, fig.147, p.285, Nude Study for 'Standing Nude'); (ill.b&w, fig.80, p.149, The Arena at Arles)The present work is a study for the oil painting Standing Nude (Jane Ford), 1977-8 (Private Collection).