The Yellow Sofa by JOHN CREALOCK

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The Yellow Sofa
The Yellow Sofa ( United Kingdom 1912 )
JOHN MANSFIELD CREALOCK (1871-1959)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

97.20cm wide 130.80cm high (38.27 inches wide  51.50 inches high)

Provenance

With Dicksee and Co., London, 1912.

Exhibition History

London, Royal Academy, 1912, no. 98. Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1914, no.1.

Description / Expertise

Major John Mansfield Crealock was educated at Sandhurst and served in the Boer War as a Lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry before travelling to Paris to study at the Académie Julian from 1901-4. Crealock’s method of entitling his portraits of elegant women in luxurious interiors according to their colour arrangement as opposed to the names of the sitters was practised by Whistler in the second half of the 19th century. This painting, The Yellow Sofa, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1912 (no. 98) along with The Red Sofa (no. 92). In 1920 he exhibited The Purple Sofa at the R.A.



Crealock was elected member of the Royal Portrait Society in 1917/18, having exhibited there since 1908.