The
Pearl Necklace
c. 1905
Henry Tonks,
British Painter
Art Gallery of
New South
Wales, Sydney
Oil on
canvas
102 x 70.5
cm
Jpg: www.nga.gov.au
From: The
Edwardians: Secrets
and Desires; The National Gallery of Australia
In the early 1900s
Henry Tonks painted
poetic images of beautiful and elegant women in wistful reverie. His
success
depicting such images led the critic CH Collins Baker to praise his
ability
to convey the inner tensions and humanity of his subjects, and the way
‘the implication of their complexities and mysteries’ made them
beautiful.
(The Studio, vol. 49, 1910)
(www.nga.gov.au)
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