£450.00
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Tempera, painted on primed plywood. Signed by the artist: Irene Pownoll Williams (lower left). The picture is presented in its original glazed painted and silvered frame with two exhibition labels on reverse.
Exhibited at the New English Art Club priced £15.15 : and the Russell Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth, “Contemporary Tempera” 1942.
Central to the image is a colourful painting of an arrangement of flowers nestled between a collar of lace in a jug. The jug is standing in the centre of the picture next to a green glass scent bottle and a fancy white glove, framed between two lace curtains.
Painting: 13 1/8 x 12 3/4 in. (33.5 x 32.5 cm.)
Frame: 17 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. (44.5 x 43.5 cm.)
Tempera can survive the passage of time better than oil paintings – this is especially the case with early Italian egg tempera, which is usually characterised by an almost enamelled appearance. In the 20th century however, egg tempera was often only lightly bound (resulting in a chalky quality), closer in character to watercolour.
