Eva Frankfurther (1930 Berlin, Germany – 1959 London, England)
Woman with Two Children, c. 1955
Oil on paper
76 x 54 cm
Private Collection
© The Estate of Eva Frankfurther
Immigrated to England 1939
Eva Frankfurther frequently depicted mothers and children. The vivid red of the toddler's dress, her bow and the mother's hair, stand out against the muted background suggesting the drab, postwar austerity of their straitened lives. The composition is strengthened by an invisible diagonal that binds the two children to their mother.
