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Orovida Pissarro

Winter (The Skaters)

Stern Pissarro Gallery

Date 1936-38

Period 20th century

Origin SPG

Medium Egg tempera on linen

Dimension 91.5 x 114.3 cm (36 x 45 inches)

The present work was part of the first set of the seasons series. In Orovida's catalogue she describes how 'this is the first picture painted in Rowney's Egg Tempera: "I have hithertoo [sic] called bodycolour tempera in this catalogue as my method of bodycolour is more like tempera than bodycolour."

Date: 1936-38

Period: 20th century

Origin: SPG

Medium: Egg tempera on linen

Signature: Signed and dated lower left Orovida 1936-38

Dimension: 91.5 x 114.3 cm (36 x 45 inches)

Literature: K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 77 (illustrated)

Exhibition: London, Redfern Gallery, Ten Years of Work by Orovida, 5th-28th May 1938, no. 17
London, The Leicester Galleries, Orovida, October- November 1973, no. 13

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