Portrait of a Young Girl Still Lifes at the Battersea Affordable Art

at the Battersea Affordable Art Fair

America has proved a rich vein for sourcing paintings in the last decade but unusually this American oil turned up in a London saleroom

Both beautifully rendered and so redolent of 1930s America

There is so much life in this painting

This sculpture is at our Cecil Court gallery

Portrait of a Young Girl Still Lifes at the Battersea Affordable ArtIt is a wonder to me that the artist of this highly accomplished little portrait cannot be found listed anywhere. It does happen occasionally but short of the painter using a pseudonym to dodge a gallery contract as often happened or a joker adding their name for some spurious reason, Im at a loss. Anyway courtesy of an American dealer friend and a bit of TLC from our professional restorers here she is, an anonymous 1950s beauty with no past.