
Christopher Wood
The Bather, circa 1925-26
oil on canvas
64.2 x 81.3 cm; 25 1/4 x 32 1/8 in
JC17
Out of copyright
Provenance
Probably, Dr Helmut Lindley.with Austin Desmond, where purchased in November 1993.
Exhibitions
robably, London, Redfern Gallery, New Burlington Galleries, Christopher Wood, Exhibition of Complete Works, March - April 1938, no. 43 (despite different dimensions: 28 ½ x 19 ½ in.).Probably, London, Redfern Gallery, Christopher Wood, the First Retrospective Exhibition Since 1938, April - May 1959, no. 33 (lent by Dr Helmut Lindley).
Probably, London, Redfern Gallery, Christopher Wood 1901-1930, November 1965, no. 34 (lent by Dr Helmut Lindley).
London, Austin Desmond, 1988.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: Revealed, February - April 2014.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Horizons: Kettle's Yard at Jerwood Gallery, September 2015 - January 2016.
London, Business Design Centre, London Art Fair, Coast, January 2016.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Coast, April - July 2016.
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Christopher Wood, July - October 2016
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, October 2016 - January 2017.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: 25 Years, January - April 2018.
London, Sotheby's, Jerwood Collection: 25, 8-12 June 2018.
London, Mall Galleries, The Art of Collecting, 27 June - 6 July 2018.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, A Curator's Choice, May-August 2021.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, Coast, Country, City, August - November 2021.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Jerwood Collection; 25, 2018, p.14, illustrated.E. Newton, Christopher Wood 1901-1930, London, 1938, p. 66, no. 134.
R. Ingleby, Christopher Wood, An English Painter, London, 1995, pl. 6 where identified as ‘The Bather, 1925’.
M. Sturgis, Jerwood, The Foundation and the Founders, Norwich, 2009, illustrated pp.54-55.
Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 35, illustrated p. 10.