Painting: Design for the Festival of Britain
John Cecil Stephenson (1889 - 1961)
Egg tempera on canvas laid down on board
1950-
About the work
- Location
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Country: Pakistan
City: Islamabad
Place: British High Commission
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- Places
- Subjects
- abstract, fair/festival/carnival
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas laid down on board, egg tempera, tempera painting
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Details
- Title
- Painting: Design for the Festival of Britain
- Date
- 1950
- Medium
- Egg tempera on canvas laid down on board
- Dimensions
- height: 82.00 cm, width: 61.50 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Sotheby's, 27 November 1996
- Inscription
- verso: CECIL STEPHENSON 1950 / EGG TEMPERA / 24" x 32"
- Provenance
- Artist's studio sale; from which sale purchased by Fischer Fine Art; sold through Sotheby's, London, 'Modern British and Irish Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture' sale, on 27 November 1996 (Lot 71); from which sale purchased by the Government Art Collection
- GAC number
- 17231