Dorothy Kay (Irish, 1886-1964) 'The passing train' unframed
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Notes : PROVENANCE:Mrs Edna Baiss, the artist's sisterA private collectionEXHIBITED:Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province Society of Arts, November 1919, cat. no. 32 (titled 'The Train') In her monograph Reynold's refers to the above work:"Listed in the scrapbook for June (1918) is The Passing Train, a horizontal canvas of five piccanins seen as if from a train while they watch alongside the railway line."and later:"The first known example of Dorothy's oblique titles is of the piccanins in The Passing Train (51 x 61 cm), which is signed but undated and remains in the possession of her sister Edna's daughters".BIBLIOGRAPHY:M. Reynolds, Everything you do is a portrait of yourself, (Cape Town, 1989)
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