A hauntingly beautiful portrait attributed to well listed New Zealand/English artist Kathleen Browne (1905-2007).
Depicting a thoughtful looking woman with red hair and a large red-bordered scarf around her head. Behind her is a lake wiht mountains beyond.
Unsigned but was purchased at a Sussex auction in 2021 with two other works by the artist. The name Marik Berovski is inscribed verso by a later hand which could be the name of the sitter, the purchaser etc.
Painted in oils on a wooden panel. Could it be the painting titled 'Girl in the Field' exhibited by Browne at the Royal Academy in 1982??
In very good condition, the only points to note are a mark on the surface bottom right which looks to have been caused by a knot in the wood - see third photograph above. Also in some lights two faint parallel horizontal lines are visible about 2" from the bottom of the bottom, they look like two drips of varnish or similar have run down the painting at some time.
Well presented in a dark wooden frame with carved detail which is in excellent condition.
As it is unsigned I will provide a Certificate of Authenticity with the information I have given above.
Measures 52 x 42cm including the frame, the painting only is 45 x 35cm.
Postage £8 to mainland UK, £26 to mainland Europe and £50 to the USA.
Kathleen Browne was a painter, printmaker, teacher and art historian, born in Christchurch New Zealand. She studied and taught at Canterbury College School of Art in the 1920s and also studied at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1930s. She taught in various schools before founding her own school with fellow artist Marian Kratochwil who she later married. She was a member of Senefelder Graphic Arts Society, and showed at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Leicester Gallery, the Paris Salon where she won a Gold Medal and regularly at the Royal Academy between 1949 and 1985. She painted regularly in Europe, particularly Portugal. Examples of her work are held in a number of institutional collections including the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum and the Royal Academy.
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