Portrait of Baronne Baba d’Erlanger and Miss Paula Gellibrand (1919-21). Augustus Edwin John (
Portrait of Baronne Baba d’Erlanger and Miss Paula Gellibrand (1919-21). Augustus Edwin John (Welsh, 1878-1961). Oil on canvas. Richard Green.Baba was dark and intense, Paula shimmering and golden, with ice blue eyes. John responds not only to their superb good looks but to the zeitgeist – their marcel-waved hair and simple dresses have a classical unfussiness that ushers in the Roaring Twenties. The brushwork has the witty fluidity of a foxtrot, while the composition is organized around bold blocks of colour: red, gold and deep sapphire. -- source link
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