REF: 5050
Medium - Oil on board
Size - 23½" x 17" (60cm x 43cm)
Recto - Signed and dated 67
Verso - Inscribed “Woman in Clogs and Shawl, Wigan” Isherwood has also added his trademark X (cross) which when asked why he did it, he replied “It means ‘God help me!’”
PROVENANCE
The artwork was authenticated by Molly Isherwood on behalf of the Isherwood estate in July 2002.
Condition – Excellent
Woman in Clogs and Shawl, Wigan by James Lawrence Isherwood
James Lawrence Isherwood was born in Wigan, England in 1917. Isherwood was a prolific 20th Century impressionsist/expressionist painter and is known for his Wigan Style and Wigan figure paintings. These together with his London and Wigan street scenes, are his most sought after works.