Mrs Fairbairn (Nancy Cunard)
(1919)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
213.7 × 122.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1954
© Estate of the artist
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Accession Number
3076-4
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Biographical Interiors Portraits
Subjects (specific)
activists berets chairs (furniture forms) Chinoiserie coats (garments) full-length figures poets women (female humans)
Frame
Original, maker unknown, surface not original.
Colourmen
Colourman
SMITH
Location of stamp
Reverse of canvas in each four quadrants and also on bottom of vertical stretcher cross brace.
Transcript
JOHN B. SMITH,/11...HAMPSTEAD RD N.W./LONDON.
Medium
Blue ink stamp
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