Sir Gerald Festus Kelly: Studio portrait with a pink chrysanthemum

Sir Gerald Festus Kelly: Studio portrait with a pink chrysanthemum - on Art WW I

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Sir Gerald Festus Kelly:
Studio portrait with a pink chrysanthemum
Unmounted (ref: 6505)
Oil on canvas, squared in pencil

12 7/8 x 16 7/8 in. (32.7 x 43 cm)

Tags: Sir Gerald Festus Kelly oil pencil flowers portraits Works in Progress

Provenance: The Artist's Estate

This enigmatic painting comprises a canvas on which there are two unfinished paintings. The superimposed chrysanthemum which partially obscures an earlier portrait of an unidentified man's face, suggests that Kelly was reusing an old canvas when he started painting this study of flowers and foliage.