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DESTROYED

Study portrait

Tina Meller 1929

Standing full-length in profile to the left, full face, turned to the viewer, wearing a long white Flamenco dress with a train, red flowers in her dark hair, red shoes and jewellery, with her right arm raised above her head, her left arm before her and her body poised in a dance position

Oil on canvas, 104.2 x 81.3 cm (41 x 32 in.)

Inscribed lower right: László / 1929 

Sitters’ Book II, f. 63: Tina Meller / 6-9-1929

Studio Inventory, 1938, p. 100 (550): Tina Mellor [sic], Spanish Dancer. Painted for the Artist's pleasure. A revue actress who danced  in "Wake Up and Dream"

PROVENANCE:

In the possession of the artist on his death;

Paul Leonardo de Laszlo, his third son;

By descent in the family;

Destroyed in a fire in 1989

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