Lot 150: SIR WILLIAM COLDSTREAM

SIR WILLIAM COLDSTREAM 1908-1987 STANDING NUDE signed oil on canvas 101 by 61cm.; 39¾ by 24in. Executed in 1977-8.

London, Anthony d'Offay, William Coldstream: New Paintings, 20th June - 20th July 1984, cat. no.7 (unpaginated);
London, The Tate Gallery, The Paintings of William Coldstream 1908-1987, 17th October 1990 - 6th January 1991, cat. no.63, illustrated, with tour to Newport, Newport Art Gallery and Museum, Norwich, Castle Museum and Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery.

Bruce Laughton, William Coldstream, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, p.284, WMC 208, illustrated fig.146.

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 14th May 1981

One of only two completed paintings of the standing nude by Coldstream, the first having been painted in 1937. Painted at Church Row, Hampstead, the subject is Jane Ford, a friend of the artist, and there were at least sixty-eight sittings.