Nude woman combing her hair (1940)

Mary Kessell

pen and grey ink, on blue paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Pen and grey ink, Blue paper

Physical Object Description:

Nude woman combing her hair; whole-length sitting to front, her head in profile to right. Inscription: dated: "18.5.40" and signed. ?Venus anadyomene.

Dimensions:

47 x 35.8 cm

Accession Number:

1953,0518.3

Credit:

Presented by Contemporary Art Society, 1953

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by A. M. Hind (1880-1957) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1940; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1953

Relationship:

Arthur Mayger 'A. M.' Hind Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Greek and Roman mythology

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