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Dorelia in a Black Dress

Gwen John

Dorelia in a Black Dress

Gwen John
  • Date: c.1903 - c.1904
  • Style: Post-Impressionism
  • Genre: portrait
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Location: Tate Britain, London, UK
  • Dimensions: 73 x 48.9 cm
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John trained at the Slade School of Art, where the paintings of James McNeill Whistler were hugely influential. In her work, as in Whistler’s, the atmosphere of a portrait is just as important as the display of personality or the narration of biography. Wishing to be free of family expectations and, perhaps, of her brother Augustus' fame, John moved to Paris in 1904. En route John made three paintings of her travelling companion Dorelia McNeil. This is one of them.

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‘Dorelia in a Black Dress’, Gwen John, c.1903-4 | Tate: www.tate.org.uk
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