San Giorgio Maggiore reserved With a hint of tribal

With a hint of tribal art in the background I have reduced the bull head to a curved sheet of clay but allowed the clay and the kiln to give character and life to this piece

It is looser and more Parisian than his later works and as it surfaced in America it could well be one of the many wealthy heiresses wearing a furrow between New York and London at the time

not to mention sentimental value

It is a wonder to me that the artist of this highly accomplished little portrait cannot be found listed anywhere

technically faultless and effortlessly stretching Mabel’s talents as a miniature painter to a more domestic scale

San Giorgio Maggiore reserved With a hint of tribalIn our Cecil Court Gallery