Ottilie Tolansky 1912-1977
Girl in a Red Shirt, c. 1950
oil on canvas
124 x 62 cm
(lower right): Tolansky
2012-1990-27
© Ottilie Tolansky estate
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’....
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’. In this strikingly-posed portrait, the sitter’s red shirt stands out strongly against the muted, thinly-painted background. Although undated, the sitter’s clothing, particularly her hat and the width of her sleeves, suggest that it dates to the late 1950s.
Provenance
presented by Jon Tolansky, 1990Exhibitions
2018 Out of Austria: Austrian emigre artists to the UK, Ben Uri Gallery and MuseumLiterature
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.Be the first to know – Sign Up
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