#“The Rainbow” by Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (1870–1951)

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"The Rainbow" by Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (1870–1951)

[jadeseadragon]

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (British, 1870 - 1951):

1. Portrait of Mavis Yorke, ca. 1920.

2. Mavis Yorke dancing in 'Where the Rainbow Ends', 1913, oil on canvas, 44 × 34 inches.

3. Miss Mavis Yorke, child actress and dancer. Original photograph, pub. 1916.

"Celebrated as a child actress, Mavis Yorke made her debut in 1911 at the Savoy in 'Where the Rainbow Ends', a musical revue whose cast included a twelve-year-old Noel Coward, playing a naughty page boy. Later, Coward recalled Yorke as 'a fragile little thing... she played Will O' the Wisp and was exquisite; she flitted through the woods and glades of the production to Roger Quilter's gentle music and there was in her a quality of magic'. (See N. Coward, Present Indicative, p. 27.)"

"De Glehn painted her as Will o'the Wisp in 1913, and again, seven years later in the present portrait."

[womblegrinch]

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (1870-1951) - The rainbow

Oil on canvas. 20 x 24.1 inches, 50.9 x 61.4 cm.

Estimate: £15,000-25,000.

Sold Christie’s, London, 11 June 2019 for £17,500 incl B.P.

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“Mavis Yorke dancing in Where the Rainbow Ends” by British artist Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (1870-1951).

[jadeseadragon]

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (British, 1870 - 1951), Mavis Yorke Dancing in "Where the Rainbow Ends", 1913, oil on canvas, 111.8 x 86.4 cm. (44 x 34 in.)

[womblegrinch]

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (1870-1951) - The rainbow

Oil on canvas. 27 x 33.5 inches, 69 x 85 cm.

Estimate £20,000-30,000.

Failed to sell Sotheby’s, London, 10 Dec 2019.