Image: Netherlands Institute for Art History.

Image: The Times, 5 May 1934, p16.

• Title(s): Gipsy Girl (Royal Academy catalogue, 1934; The TImes, 5 May 1934)
• Description: A young girl, waist up and wearing dark clothes, looking directly at the viewer with her arms partly raised, standing in a rural lane.
• Media: ?
• Dimensions: 30 x 31 in (Christie’s, 1980).
• Signature/date/other text: ?
• History:
  • Date? – Art Exhibitions Bureau – A Painter’s Choice. (Source: Christie’s, 1980.) [One of three works by Annie known to have been in the undated “A Painter’s Choice” exhibition, the others being Study of hands and Blue Seascape.]
  • 1934 – Exhibited Royal Academy, no.721, illustrated in The Times, 5 May 1934, p16 (catalogue).
  • Date? – Johannesberg, British Council Exhibition. (Source: Christie’s, 1980.)
  • 1953 – Exhibited Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Famous British Women Artists. (Source: Christie’s, 1980.)
  • 1956-1957 – Exhibited The Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, no. 478 ,illustrated in catalogue. (Source: Christie’s, 1980.)
  • 1980 – Auctioned Christies, lot 191, £3,000.
• Location: ?

The Connoisseur, June 1934: “There is not a more solid piece of painting in the entire [Royal Academy] exhibition”.

The Evening News, 5 May 1934: “… a portrait of a gipsy girl, in whose attire the artist has obtained colourings in brown, which make the work distinctive”.

Image: Netherlands Institute for Art History.

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