SIR WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN (1872-1945) 'Alison Debenham' circa...

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£650

SIR WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN (1872-1945) 'Alison Debenham'

circa 1916, the sitter depicted full-length, standing in a garden, oil on canvas, 100cm x 72cm

Note: Alison Edith Debenham (later Le Plat) was a British painter and artist, the daughter of Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham, 1st Baronet, and his wife, Lady Cicely, of the Debenhams department store family business. After attending a finishing school in Paris, Alison studied at the Slade School of Art in London from 1923 to 1926. In 1928 she returned to live in Paris before, in 1929, moving to the south of France where she studied with the French painter Simon Bussy. There she met several prominent artists and authors including André Gide, Henri Matisse and, in 1930, married artist René Le Plat. Throughout her artistic career, Debenham mostly painted portraits of friends and family members but also created a series of portraits of the workers on her father's Dorset estate. A number of these portraits can be found in Briantspuddle Village Hall. She regularly exhibited in both London and Paris and her first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Vignon in Paris in 1932.In 1935 she had a solo show at the Zwemmer Gallery in London and for a time she was associated with the Euston Road School of Artists. A memorial exhibition for Debenham was held at the Richmond Hill Gallery in 1968 and a further retrospective was mounted by the Belgrave Gallery in London in 1976.

Framed dimensions: 125cm x 96cm