Lot 331
Isabel Codrington (British 1874-1943)
Peasant girl
Auction: 20 November 2019 from 10:00 GMT
£2,250
Description
Signed with a monogram, oil on canvas
Dimensions
61cm x 46cm (24in x 18in)
Footnote
Provenance: The artist's family and thence by descent
Exhibited: Goupil Fils, London 1927
Note: Codrington’s Peasant Girl is one of a series of perceptive studies of boys and girls painted in the mid-twenties at Wistler’s Wood, her home in Surrey. It is a remarkably confident performance that, with great economy of means, achieves real psychological depth. Beauty, claimed one critic, ‘jumps out at her… she is so intensely moved by the souls of homely places and people and things that she paints them as they stand, and then shocks us into seeing that there is an exquisite loveliness in the commonplace’ (Eve, 11 May 1927, p.320).
