Ottilie Tolansky, Girl in a Red Shirt, c. 1950

Ottilie Tolansky 1912-1977

Girl in a Red Shirt, c. 1950

oil on canvas

124 x 62 cm

(lower right): Tolansky

2012-1990-27

Photo: Bridgeman images

Tolansky's paintings, as Bernard Dunstan observed in her ‘Times’ obituary, ‘were immediately recognisable by her use of strongly defined planes of colour, luminous and clear, with blues and violets predominating’....

Provenance

presented by Jon Tolansky, 1990

Exhibitions

2018 Out of Austria: Austrian emigre artists to the UK, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

Literature

Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 153.

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