A Girl's Head (Rachel) (1925)

Clara Esther Klinghoffer

oil on canvas

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Signed and dated.

Dimensions:

45.4 x 41.1 cm

Accession Number:

ABDAG002265

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1936

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the Redfern Gallery by The Right Hon. Frederick Leverton Harris (1864-1926) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1925; presented to Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, 1936

Relationship:

(Frederick) Leverton Harris Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

In her youth Clara Klinghoffer often depicted members of her own family, particularly her six sisters (Fanny, Rose, Rachel, Bertha, Leah, and Hilda), who all modelled for her in natural poses in their East End home, but most frequently Rose (who also sat to the sculptor Jacob Epstein), and Rachel, whom the artist identified to Aberdeen Art Gallery in 1937 as the sitter for this portrait.

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