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[Susannah]
c1936. Oil on canvas, signed in pencil on stretcher verso, 59.6 x 49.7cm. Slight scuffing and paint loss. Framed. Provenance: Dundas and Thornhill estate. The image seems to be have been inspired by one of the figures in Renoir’s 1917 painting depicting two bathers. Ref: Athenaeum (USA). Renoir’s model may have been artist Marie-Clémentine Valadon, who was nicknamed “Suzanne” by Toulouse-Lautrec after the biblical story of Susanna and the Elders. See also item 160 for the same subject by Dorothy Thornhill, Dundas’ wife.
Item #CL183-47
Price (AUD): $2,650.00 other currencies
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