The Something Sisters

Details

ALLEN JONES, R.A. (B. 1937)
The Something Sisters
signed, inscribed and dated 'Allen Jones 62,/oil sketch 'Something Sisters'' (on the reverse)
oil, gouache and pencil on paper
9 1⁄8 x 9 in. (23 x 22.8 cm.)
Executed in 1962.

Provenance

with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
Peter Cochrane, from whom acquired by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The present work is a preliminary sketch for an oil of the same name, also painted in 1962. The large oil has been held in the collection of the Kunsthalle Museum, Hamburg since 1970.

We are very grateful to the artist for his assistance in cataloguing this work.

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