ELEKTRA MAGNOLETSI (IKON), 1933
Watercolour and pencil. 10 x 7½in. (25.5 x 19.3cm.)
Titled and dated 1933 on the reverse, on the mount, and with the Paul label.
Provenance
National Trust bequest.
Exhibited
Possibly the work exhibited at Cheltenham, Cheltenham Municipal Gallery, 1936, No. 35.
The National Portrait Gallery contains a pencil drawing of Ithell Colquhoun by Elektra Magnoletsi dated 1933 (NPG D4409). Elektra E. Magnoletsi 1907-1993 was born in Salonica and died in Hampstead. She studied at the Slade. She was influenced by surrealism and became a friend of Colquhoun. She spent most of her life in Greece and Cyprus, specialising in painting the flora. She contributed 40 plates to Wild Flowers of Cyprus (Philimore, 1973) under her married name of Elektra Megaw.
The portrait is in the style of a mosaic.
See Eliah Magnoletsi (ikon), 1933 for the companion piece.