Portrait of Lillian Browse

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Maker

Mané-Katz
1894-1962

Title

Portrait of Lillian Browse

Date of Production

1936

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 91.4 cm (canvas)
Width: 71.1 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.2006.LB.1

Mode of Acquisition

Lillian Browse, bequest, 2006

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This portrait captures the beauty and vibrancy of the celebrated modern art dealer and scholar Lillian Browse (1906-2005). Her major bequest to the Courtauld Gallery includes paintings, drawings and sculpture. Mané Katz was one of the first artists to befriend Browse when she started her career as a young dealer visiting the studios of Paris. She later recalled that Katz painted this portrait as she wandered around his studio casually chatting to him.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed and dated : lower right & recto : : Mané-Katz 36

Provenance

Lillian Browse Bequest 2006

Exhibition History

Lillian Browse Memorial Exhibition, Browse and Darby, London, 27/11/2006-01/12/2006

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