Portrait of Elsie Barling
Date
circa 1931
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Object Detail
Catalogue number
FH0973
Date
circa 1931
Brief Description
This portrait of Hodgkins’ friend, Elsie Barling, was done when they were staying in a cottage in Sussex around 1931. According to Barling, she was descending the little winding staircase, and the artist asked to stay where she was for a moment while she drew her. The work was later given to a fellow guest, Dorothy Selby, with the inscription ‘Of a friend to a friend by a friend’. Hodgkins had a great love of patterned fabrics, which must have been of considerable help when she worked for six months in Manchester as a fabric designer in 1925. (Frances Hodgkins - Leitmotif, 2005)
Medium
pencil
Dimensions
390 x 295 mm
Inscription
Signed lower right: Frances Hodgkins
Inscribed (on mount; no longer in situ): To Dorothy Selby Xmas 1931 To a friend of a friend by a friend
Inscribed (on mount; no longer in situ): To Dorothy Selby Xmas 1931 To a friend of a friend by a friend
Collection
Institutional number
1954/10/2
Credit line
Auckland
Art
Gallery
Toi
o
Tāmaki,
gift
of
Mr
Gerald
Selby,
from
the
estate
of
Dorothy
Selby,
1954
Subject place
Provenance
Miss Dorothy Selby, acquired from the artist.
Presented to Auckland City Art Gallery (now Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), New Zealand, by Mr Gerald Selby on behalf of the Estate of Dorothy Selby, 1954.
Presented to Auckland City Art Gallery (now Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), New Zealand, by Mr Gerald Selby on behalf of the Estate of Dorothy Selby, 1954.
Exhibition history
References
E H McCormick, Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 1954| p. 206
E H McCormick, Portrait of Frances Hodgkins, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1981| p. 109 (ill.)
Joanne Drayton, Frances Hodgkins: A Private Viewing, Godwit, Auckland, 2005| p. 222 (colour ill.)
Mary Kisler, Frances Hodgkins: Leitmotif, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, 2005| p. 12 (colour ill. 6)
E H McCormick, Portrait of Frances Hodgkins, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1981| p. 109 (ill.)
Joanne Drayton, Frances Hodgkins: A Private Viewing, Godwit, Auckland, 2005| p. 222 (colour ill.)
Mary Kisler, Frances Hodgkins: Leitmotif, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, 2005| p. 12 (colour ill. 6)
