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Hubert Arthur Finney:
Nita knitting outdoors
Unmounted (ref: 10951)

Inscribed on reverse 'Nita knitting out of doors number 654'

Studio stamp on reverse

Tags: Hubert Arthur Finney portraits

Provenance: The Artist's Estate

Finney met his first wife  Nita Patti Hayes in 1934, the year of this painting. 

Of her he wrote:  She had not only a realresponse to painting and a deep love of music but also because her whole hereditary was European. I find something about the European woman or Mediterranean women particularly attractive. My passion for drawing and painting remained unabated, in fact I sometimes believe that the muse was jealous of any other love that might diminish my absorption with my struggles to create something worthwhile in the world of the visual arts.

Exhibited: The Lightbox, Woking, Out of the Shadows, 2020, cat 5