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Eric Kennington:
Rear View, standing female nude
Framed (ref: 76)

Signed with initials; labelled no. 28

On glass; black chalk, 28 x 18 in. (71.2 x 45.8 cm.)

Tags: Eric Kennington chalk

Provenance: the artist's son, Christopher Kennington; Lord Sudeley; thence by descent
Literature: Jonathan Black, The Sculpture of Eric Kennington, Lund Humphries, 2002

This drawing is a study for the female figure in the small bronze group Kennington exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in October 1929 entitled Unity.

Two further studies (both dated 1929), showing a frontal and three quarter view of the same model, are listed in the Witt Library as Kennington Family Collection, ref. A94/479 and no. 131 A94/458.  

We are grateful to Jonathan Black for his assistance.