BEATRICE HUNTINGTON (1889 - 1988) Elderly Woman with Spanish Look
BEATRICE HUNTINGTON (1889 - 1988) Elderly Woman with Spanish Look
BEATRICE HUNTINGTON (1889 - 1988)
Elderly Woman with Spanish Look
Oil on canvas · 45.5 x 38 cm
Signed lower left, 'B.M.L. Huntington'
Framed
Verso labelled: Doig, Wilson and Wheatley, George Street, Edinburgh '16. Elderly Woman with a Spanish Look' (The Scottish Gallery 1990)
Exhibited: The Scottish Gallery, 1990, cat. no.16
The sitter is clearly Beatrice's life-long friend, Violet Dreschfeld, also the subject of La Gitana (cat.34). A comparison of this with her earlier portrait of Violet shows Beatrice's depiction of old age to be uncompromising.
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