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Posted by Jimma at 10/15/2011 5:45:11 AM
I went back to The Lady Lever again yesterday and I was looking through a display book that they had depicting images about the creation of the gallery and how it looked years ago. One of the photo's had an image of how a certain part of it looked back in the 1920's and, to my surprise, I saw hanging on the wall what I'm pretty sure is The Siren. I've included (again, hopefully) the image as well as a close-up on the same photo. Not great quality, but they were taken on my mobile in a darkened room from a book, but they still show enough, I think. I had to adjust them on Photoshop to help bring them out a bit better. I've done a little search on the internet but can find no reference to the fact that The Siren was ever at The Lady Lever. Anyone out there heard of this before?



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Posted by Cathy at 10/18/2011 2:54:10 AM
Thanks so much for sharing this ... very interesting.

I looked at the 'Catalogue of Works' in Anthony Hobson's 1980 book and found this with the provenance for The Siren:

Agnew 14 Feb 1901 for the artist to J Gresham, 450 pounds.
Christie's 12 July 1917 (132) for James Gresham to Gooden & Fox, 250gns..
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now for the connection:
Lord Leverhulme.
Christie's 6 June 1958 to Goldschmidt.
d'Offay/Couper 1970 to Berronati.

So it seems the painting was in the collection from c.1917 till sold in 1958.
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Here's an article (you may have already seen) about the 2003 sale of The Siren as part of the Seymore Stein Collection.

I searched the Sotheby site for the auction record ... but the site seemed to be having problems. Was curious what the Lot Notes had shared.
Art Value gave this info if someone wants to look for them:
«N 07933», New York, Thursday, December 11, 2003 - Lot 65

Thanks again for sharing.  
Posted by Jimma at 10/22/2011 7:22:20 PM
Thanks for that, Cathy. I was wondering about it's history and when it was sold. I've never seen The Siren. As I remember, it was at the Canadian exhibition but nowhere else. Hopefully I'll get to see it one day, but I can't help but feel a bit miffed that The Lady Lever decided to sell it all those years ago. I wonder why?

Thanks again,

Jim


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