JEWELLERY, ANTIQUE AND ART AUCTION Tuesday, 30 April 2019 - 9:30 AM start
Jean Farquhar
Realised: $100 plus premium
Lot Details
'Self-portrait, Paris 1939', pencil, entitled and dated 1939. 300 x 240. Note: Jean Farquhar (married name Silvester, b.1915-1967) attended Auckland Girls Grammar School, then Elam School of Fine Arts. Jean won the Carnegie Travelling Scholarship in Art selected by Auckland Society of Arts. Travelling to Britain then to France studying at the André Lhote Studio in Paris until the outbreak of WWII, then back to Britain. Jean worked as a poster designer for the publicity branch of the Post Office Savings Bank. further details available.
