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15th August 2025

This lovely composition suggests the ideal reading outfit: pale blue linen dress, scarlet highlights, and a wide-brimmed straw hat - plus a suitably matching folding chair. The subject is sculptor Eleanor Christie-Chatterley (b.1929) in The artist's wife reading, August 1953 (private collection) by Fyffe Christie (1918-79).

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