Lot 5

In overall good condition. Crease in lower left corner. Slight discolouration especially in the lower half. Minor abbrasions resulting in pigment loss.


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Sotheby's, Melbourne, 30 April 1995, lot 175
Private collection
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 2 December 2014, lot 119
Private collection, Melbourne

Mary spent her childhood in Victoria until her mother took her to Italy to complete her education in her teens. Aged 17, Mary ran away to Paris, where she lived a Bohemian artist's life in Montparnasse, mixing with Pablo Picasso and School of Paris artists Marc Chagall, Marie Laurencin, Jules Pascin and Kees van Dongen. In 1922 she worked as a studio assistant at L'Académie Lhôte, translating André Lhôte's teachings for his English-speaking students and being influenced by his Synthetic Cubist ideas of dynamic symmetry.