The House Painters

Robert Gibbings (British, 1889–1958)

1921

Medium/TechniqueWoodcut on Asian paper

DimensionsSheet: 14.1 x 12.4 cm (5 9/16 x 4 7/8 in.)

Credit LineLucy Dalbiac Luard Fund

Accession number2016.70

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InscriptionsIn graphite, l.l.: 16-50; l.r.: Robert GibbingsProvenancePatience Empson (b. 1911 – d. 2003), Oxford [see note]. About 1980s or 1990s, sold by the Fine Art Society, London, to a private collector, New York; by 2014, sold by this private collector to Catherine E. Burns Fine Prints and Drawings, Oakland, CA; 2016, sold by Catherine E. Burns to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 23, 2016)

NOTE: According to the dealer at the time of the print’s acquisition. Empson was the artist’s biographer and lover from the mid-1940s until his death in 1959.