Lot 1965
‡`GLUCK` (HANNAH GLUCKSTEIN) (1895-1978)
SEASCAPE
Signed and dated Gluck 1969, oil on canvas board, in a `Gluck frame`
14 x 21.5cm.; 41 x 48.5cm in frame
Exhibited: London, The Fine Art Society plc, July 1989 (label on reverse of frame)
* An intriguingly autocratic artistic personality, Gluck forsook her family name in order to distance herself from family wealth and patronymic convention. She studied in St John's Wood and associated with Sir Alfred Munnings in Cornwall before resolving to show her work only in solo exhibitions (of which there were five during her lifetime) and she adopted a highly mannered masculine appearance. She was a friend of Constance Spry, who inspired her flower pictures. Gluck's innate feel for design led to her devising the instantly recognizable stepped geometric frames. When hung against a wall of similar colour, these frames allowed the pictures to blend almost invisibly into their surroundings (which was not quite the modest self-effacement that the artist ever sought for herself).
