At The Dressing Table 20th Century Continental School Sometimes it might register as

Sometimes it might register as a reflection in a mirror

falls into no easy category

During this latter period in particular

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At The Dressing Table 20th Century Continental School Sometimes it might register asQuite a dramatic domestic genre piece, a young girl at her toilette by a Continental painter working between the wars. The wonderful detail in the Chinese vase and the classical roundels behind are clever, but the black drapery in the fore ground is the artist simply showing off. A large and serious academic workpossibly the artists daughterthere certainly seems to be an intimacy between the painter and subject. The gilt gesso frame is period but