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By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
The Sirens (composition study in colored chalks and watercolor on buff paper on canvas)
Coloured chalks and watercolor on buff paper on canvas, extended along lower edge
1880 circa
Dimensions: 170.2 cm x 233.7 cm
Collection Categories
Watercolour, Gouache, Vellum, Gold, Finished Works and tempera on Paper, Works on Paper / Vellum
Expertise
Provenance
Exhibitions
Bibliography
No data available
Owner
Dates Owned
Further Info.
and
Accession
no.
circa
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods)
1919-1919
Artist's Estate sale 5 June 1919, lot 100
Gooden and Fox
1919
Gooden and Fox (lot 100)
Arthur Crossland
1956
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods)
1956-1956
Crossland's sale 3 February 1956 lot 33
Abbott and Holder Ltd
1956
sold to a private collector, Spain
Hartnoll & Eyre Ltd.
1972-1974
Christie's International, New York
2023-2023
European Art 20 October 2023 lot 38 (the property of a West Coast Collector, bt from Hartnoll in 1974)
Exhibition
Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no.
Institution/Venue
People
From
To
Burne-Jones et l'influence des préraphaélites. Exposition organisée avec la collaboration de Hartnoll & Eyre Ltd. March to Aril 1972
Cat no. 17 pp. 34-36 illus
Galerie Du Luxembourg Paris
March 1972
April 1972
Title
Author/Editor
Year
Page No. & Illustrations
Attachments
Burne-Jones
William Waters, Martin Harrison
1973
opp. p. 152, and pp. 153-4, no. 41, illustrated
Burne-Jones Victorian Artist-Dreamer Full Text
John Christian, Alan Crawford, Laurence des Cars, Stephen Wildman, Graham Allen, Philippe de Montebello, Irene Bizot, Henri Loyrette
1998
pp. 321-322, under no. 157, footnote 4
Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Professor Elisa Korb, Tessa Sidey, John Christian
2007
pp. 25, 32, 61, under no. 59
Edward Burne-Jones' Mythical Paintings. The Pygmalion of Pre-Raphaelite Painters
Professor Liana De Girolami Cheney
2014
p. 133