Figures in Town Scene, Signed Hodes and date 1972 lower left, Pastel, pencil, and watercolor on paper, Sight 21" x 27 1/2", Gilded Frame behind plexi-glas, Overall measures 29 1/4" x 35 1/2". Note: Joan Hodes born 1925 in London, was trained at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1945-48. She continued her interest in drawing in Paris at the Académie Julien and the Grand Chaumière1949-50. In the early 1950s she regularly visited Oskar Kokoschka, whose support and critical advice were influential in her career. She worked mainly as a landscapist in watercolor, and traveled widely in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Spain. She lived in London.

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