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Portrait #263
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| Subject/Title: | Potter, Bertha Herbert (self-portrait) |
| Artist: | Potter, Bertha Herbert 1895-1944 |
| Date Created: | ca. 1940 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
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| Frame Dimensions: | NA |
| Image Dimensions: | 22.5 x 18 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 12/26/2003 |
| Condition: | Fair |
| Description: | Bust-length of a woman with wavy short blond hair in a blue open collar dress and a 3-strand red and white necklace. Her lips are bright red and her eyes blue. A red and blue thin ribbon (?) is in her hair. The background suggests a dramatic halo of blues and reds. Multiple point of reflection in her left eye suggest tears. |
| History: | This work may have been painted near the time of the artist's death at age 49.
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