+ Expand
Provenance: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 14th May 1981
+ Expand
Exhibited: London, Anthony d'Offay, William Coldstream: New Paintings, 20th June - 20th July 1984, cat. no.7 (unpaginated);
London, The Tate Gallery, The Paintings of William Coldstream 1908-1987, 17th October 1990 - 6th January 1991, cat. no.63, illustrated, with tour to Newport, Newport Art Gallery and Museum, Norwich, Castle Museum and Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery.
+ Expand
Literature: Bruce Laughton, William Coldstream, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, p.284, WMC 208, illustrated fig.146.
+ Expand
Notes: One of only two completed paintings of the standing nude by Coldstream, the first having been painted in 1937. Painted at Church Row, Hampstead, the subject is Jane Ford, a friend of the artist, and there were at least sixty-eight sittings.