Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved largely kept at an affordable

largely kept at an affordable price level for our many interior designer clients who tend to arrive in a large van

The painting has a deckled edge along the left side

I copied it and tried to emulate his terrifying and dynamic style

Her studio sale in a Cornish auction house said as much as any museum retrospective could about the trajectory of her career

and feels very honest to me

Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved largely kept at an affordableSomehow portraits of women by women artists of the early twentieth century have a certain historical frisson. When this was painted in 1938, the Great War had been over for two decades and the societal changes it wrought had led to political and social freedoms that would have been unthinkable to many women at the turn of the century. Elsa would have known a world of corsets and stays in 1880s Boston, a lifetime away from the simple black evening