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4 November 2021

July Flower was painted in 1942. It doesn't look much but IRL might be much brighter and more interesting. It was sold for c. £200 in 2008. Here is Eleanor Best's biography taken from Wikipedia: born in Hampshire, she went to the Slade in 1909. She continued to live in London throughout her life and settled in Richmond,  exhibiting at the Royal Academy several times (hardly surprising!) and at many other places. The rest is silence, as we have said so often we have said before. 

 

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