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DESTROYED

Preparatory work

Mrs Oswald Battine, née Audrey Magee 1935

Seated, three-quarter length to the right, wearing a dark-coloured evening dress, her right hand on her hip, her left elbow resting on the arm of her chair, her left hand holding a pendant which hangs from a long chain round her neck

Oil on canvasboard, 41.9 x 32.4 cm (16 ½ x 12 ¾ in.)

Sitters’ Book II, opp. f. 85: Audrey Battine- Oct. 3rd 1935-.

Studio Inventory, p. 72 (385): Study of Mrs. Battine. The final picture was published by the “Woman’s Journal”

This is one of two oil studies completed for the formal portrait [2800] of the sitter in October 1935. The second study [2802] shows the sitter in a very similar pose but wearing an amethyst and gold coloured dress.

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [2800].

PROVENANCE:

In the possession of the artist on his death;

Destroyed in accordance with the artist’s will, 1947

KF 2014