Art, Identity, Migration: Ben Uri at the 2023 London Art Fair
Forthcoming exhibition
Portrait of Orovida Pissarro, 1962
oil on canvas
102.2 x 86.8 cm
and dated (lower right): 'C. Klinghoffer, 1962'
1997-1
© The Estate of Clara Klinghoffer
Photo: Bridgeman images
Klinghoffer painted a number of celebrated sitters including Vivien Leigh as Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, and her friends Lucien and Orovida Pissarro. Her striking portrait of Orovida, Camille’s granddaughter, and herself an...
Klinghoffer painted a number of celebrated sitters including Vivien Leigh as Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, and her friends Lucien and Orovida Pissarro. Her striking portrait of Orovida, Camille’s granddaughter, and herself an artist, presents Orovida as a series of ample forms including her rounded belly and face framed by her cropped pudding-basin hairstyle playfully echoed in the curves of the chair, the jug, plates, fruit and ornaments all forming a sinuous and slightly comical backdrop. The patterning of her kilt strikes a lone note of slightly controlled geometry.