Lot 44
  • 44

Mary Potter 1900-1981

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Mary Potter
  • brighton belles
  • oil on canvas
  • 61 by 76cm., 24 by 30in.

Exhibited

London, Serpentine Gallery, and toured by the Arts Council to Fermoy Art Gallery, Kings Lynn, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Mary Potter: Paintings 1922-80, May - October 1981, no.14, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (wherein dated 1946);
Newtown, Oriel 31 at the Davies Memorial Gallery, and tour to Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich and Usher Gallery, Lincoln,  Mary Potter 1900-1981: A Selective Retrospective, September 1989 - May 1990, no.63 (wherein undated);
London, Fine Art Society, July 1998 (wherein dated 1949).

Catalogue Note

Executed circa 1946-49.  Whilst living in Harley Street, London, Potter often retreated to a friend's flat in Brighton where she was especially fond of painting during the Winter months.