Burmese Hairdresser

Details

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933)
Burmese Hairdresser
signed and dated 'E.A. Hornel./-1926-' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 x 19 in. (91.4 x 48.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Fine Art Society, London, February 1962, where purchased by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Of his visit to Burma Hornel wrote in a letter to Thomas Fraser, 'Since coming to Mandalay, we have got right into things Burmese, & am having quite a good time'. The culmination of his trip was the painting of the large canvas Memories of Mandalay, 1923 (Hornel Trust) which was exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute in 1923 and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 1924.

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