SYLVIA SLEIGH (1916-2010)

Name: Self Portrait at Black Heath Park
Brand: SYLVIA SLEIGH (1916-2010)
Price: 5500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 6,875

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USD 2,000 - USD 3,000

Closed: 8 Mar 2016

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Self Portrait at Black Heath Park

SYLVIA SLEIGH (1916-2010)

Price Realised USD 6,875

Closed: 8 Mar 2016

Price Realised USD 6,875

Closed: 8 Mar 2016

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THE COLLECTION OF MARY AND ROY CULLEN

SYLVIA SLEIGH (1916-2010)
Self Portrait at Black Heath Park
titled 'Self Portrait at Black heath Park' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
14 x 10 in. (35.5 x 25.4 cm.)
Painted in 1949.

PROVENANCE
Collection of Bob Lucy, Chicago, acquired directly from the artist, 1995
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2011

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Lot Essay

This painting was executed at 107 Blackheath Park during Sylvia Sleigh’s four-week visit to London in February and March 1949. Although still married to her first husband, Michael Greenwood, she was romantically involved with Lawrence Alloway, an aspiring young poet who resided at Blackheath Park and later became a prominent art critic and curator. In a letter to Greenwood, dated 9 March 1949 (Lawrence Alloway Papers, 1935-2003, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles), she wrote, “I have just bought another canvas and hope to paint myself in the new hat I have made of blue velvet with a feather.” The painting was completed before she departed London six days later.

We are grateful to Andrew D. Hottle, Ph.D., for preparing the notes above and his assistance in cataloguing this work.