PROVENANCE
An Auckland Estate Collection
Purchased from Important, Early & Rare International Art Centre, March 2009
Prior to that, in a private collection in Auckland since 1924 This work was completed between 1893 and 1898 when at the age of twenty two Goldie enrolled at the cosmopolitan Académie Julian, Paris. For four years he studied under the supervision of eminent Salon painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The academic training Goldie received at the Académie indicate that this painting is a life study of a class model, or alternatively a detailed study of an existing work