European and British Art, Part II
European and British Art, Part II
Property from an Historic British Collection
Bertha Dorph
A Baby's Head
Lot Closed
July 13, 02:18 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Historic British Collection
Bertha Dorph
Danish
1875 - 1960
A Baby's Head
signed and dated BDORPH / 1926 upper right and hand-inscribed Til / ARNE og LISE / 25 JUNI / 1927 on the reverse
oil on panel
Unframed: 27 by 22cm., 10½ by 8¾in.
Framed: 41 by 36cm., 16 by 14in.
Sale: Christie's, London, 29 March 1990, lot 115
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Bertha Dorph née Green studied under Harald Slott-Møller (lot 119) and Peter Ilsted (lots 113 and 115) in Copenhagen. She spent a year in Berlin studying etching. Her earlier works often depicted family life and children and later she focused on landscapes, portraits and flowers. Dorph also worked as a designer and together with her husband, Niels Vinding Dorph ran an art school. Notably in 1916, she became a member of the newly founded Society of Female Artists in Denmark alongside Marie Henriques, Helvig Kinch, Anna Ancher and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen.