Portrait of Elvezia Michel-Baldini (née Stampa) (1887–1963) (The Artist's Mother) (1949)

A narrow, elongated, full-length portrait executed in a rapid, linear style. A woman is seated in a bare room, directly facing the viewer with a door behind her. The colours are muted pinks, grays and blacks

Dimensions:

74.3 x 38.8 cm

Accession Number:

1952.277

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1952

Scheme:

The Foreign Fund (1924 -1965)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Sir Kenneth Clark (1903-1983), Sir Colin Anderson (1904-1908), Edward Le Bas (1904-1966), and Raymond Mortimer (1895-1980) - the Foreign Fund sub-committee for the Contemporary Art Society, 1949; presented to the Charles Rutherston Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, 1952

Relationship:

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark Charles Lambert Rutherston Manchester Art Gallery

Subject:

Portraits

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