Clara Klinghoffer
Study of a Girl, 1945
Pastel
11.5 x 8.5 inches
Signed and dated
£950.00
Provenance
The Artist's Family; The Fosse Gallery
Note: Reviewing Klinghoffer's first solo exhibition on 3rd May 1920, the art critic of the Daily Graphic proclaimed the 19-year-old a 'new star' and the 'Girl Who Draws Like Raphael'. The fine drawings and paintings by this hitherto unknown young woman caused something of a press sensation, propelling her rapidly into the limelight.
In March 1939 her friend the sculptor Jacob Epstein would describe her as 'a painter of the first order... Her understanding of form places her in the very first rank of draughtsmen in the world.'