“The Green Shawl” by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, R. A. (1844-1927)

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The Green Shawl

Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, R. A. (1844-1927)

Oil on canvas

24 x 18 inches

Provenance: The artist's Studio Sale, Christie's 24 June 1927;bought by Gooden and Fox for Sir Jeremiah Colman (1859-1942)

Courtesy of the Maas Gallery

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According to the Maas Gallery site, “Fildes was over eighty when he painted this study of the same girl who modelled for Naomi, his Academy picture of 1915. According to his son’s biography, Fildes ‘always lived in the present and it was the gradual supplanting of Victorian Art by Modernism... which was uppermost in his thoughts’ at the time this was painted; he ‘was quick to suspect any sign of it’, and took it personally – for instance, when his most famous painting, The Doctor, was relegated to a cellar from the walls of the Tate Gallery.”

Last modified 26 February 2018