Cissie Kean
Reclining Nude
, c. 1920
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Signed
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Provenance
The Artist's Estate; Private collection
Note: Kean studied at the Academie Julian in Paris where she was awarded a medal in 1906. After an extensive period of travel, she returned to Paris in the 1920's to study under André Lhote and also under Léger and thereafter adopted a distinctive cubist style.
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