Tag: Oil paint
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Martin Clayman
Read more: Martin ClaymanMr. Martin Clayman was an American business “tycoon” on holiday in the area and commissioned my mother to do this large painting. Her diary lists the price as $570 size with exclamation marks. At approximately….
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Victoria
Read more: VictoriaWe always referred to this painting as the “Old Lady” but from her portfolio I see that it was in fact called “Victoria”, I assume the name of the subject. This was a milestone painting…..
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Lt Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall M.P.
Read more: Lt Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall M.P.This portrait of Lt Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall M.P. was done as a commission for the Vintners’ Company in London. I think the commission was arranged by Harry Jackson-Pownall as Sir Assheton Pownall was an ancestor of his wife Marjorie. If you have read…
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The Purple Alps
Read more: The Purple AlpsThe Purple Alps was a small landscape painted while the family was on holiday in the South of France long before she emigrated there. This holiday was the planting of that seed, see,,,.
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The River Avon
Read more: The River AvonI think this is an unfinished painting of the River Avon near Sopley in Dorset. Another small painting that appears to be done with a lot vigor and speed. My mother felt…
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Dorset Countryside
Read more: Dorset CountrysideThis is another small “picnic painting” done of the Dorset countryside, provably painted in the late summer as the crops in the fields matured.
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The Wish IV- Liberty / Hope
Read more: The Wish IV- Liberty / HopeInitially this painting was called The Wish IV (Liberty), at a later date the name was changed to Hope or L’espérance in French. The subject is Danielle Politzer with whom she had just completed a commissioned portrait. It is a slightly dark painting as the young woman in her torn blouse, is seated in a…
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Danielle Politzer
Read more: Danielle PolitzerThe Danielle Politzer portrait was a small commission from one of the local families in Fayence. After doing the painting my mother persuaded Danielle to model for another painting just a couple of weeks later called, The Wish – Liberty….
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Laughing Self Portrait
Read more: Laughing Self PortraitThe Laughing Self Portrait was always a bit of a mystery for me when I first came across it clearing out her studio after her death. I easily recognized it as a self portrait but couldn’t understand the expression on her face…..
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Happily Ever After / Heureux jusqu’ à la fin
Read more: Happily Ever After / Heureux jusqu’ à la finChantal was another painting of one of the locals in Fayence, Chantal Robert, started a week after finishing The Wish. This painting should not be confused with “Wishing on the Moon….