Oil on card, 21.5 by 16.5 cm (8 ½ by 6 ½ ins)

Provenance: acquired from Michael Parkin in August 1983 by John Hilton

Exhibited: Michael Parkin Fine Art Ltd, Summer Exhibition of Modern British Art 1860-1950, June-August 1983

Tschudi was one of the most prominent women artists associated with Grosvenor School of Art having first studied there from 1929 to 1930 under Claude Flight. She subsequently lived and studied in France under Gino Severini and Ferdinand Leger. The present work relates to one of Tschudi’s most celebrated linocuts, an example of which is in the Metropoltan Museum of Art in New York. The idea for the subject came when Tschudi dressed up in a Pierrot costume for Ash Wednesday (Aschermittwoch). It is one of only very few known self portraits by the artist.