1. Woman of Substance
Estimate £7,000-£10,000 Sold £13,860
Evelyn De Morgan (then known as Mary Evelyn Pickering) was one of the first women to attend the Slade School of Art in London. Each day she took classes in drawing nude and draped models, and figures from antiquity winning prizes for her life-drawing skills. Her attention to detail and verisimilitude is evident in this female nude study; a preparatory drawing for the painting , painted by the artist in 1918 (now part of
