Three Studies of Leopards (1916)

Elsie Marian Henderson

Russian charcoal on thin brown packing paper

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Charcoal, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed: ‘E M Henderson.’ bottom left.

Dimensions:

24.8 x 37.5 cm

Accession Number:

N03206

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1917

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Committee

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist by the Contemporary Art Society, on the advice of Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962), 1917; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1917

Relationship:

Sydney Carlyle Cockerell Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Elsie Marian Henderson, later Baroness de Coudenhove, studied at the South Kensington Schools (which later became the Royal College of Art) before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art (1903-1905). She continued her art education in Paris, between 1908 and 1912, attending the Académie Moderne, the Académie Colarossi and at Cercle Russe. In 1912 Henderson studied with Othon Friesz (1879-1949) before spending 1913 in Italy and then enrolled at the Chelsea Polytechnic, London (now Chelsea College of Arts) in 1916. She became a frequent visitor to the London Zoo and animal drawings and paintings became a major theme of her work.

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