Kathleen Emily Temple-Bird (British 1879 - 1962),
Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi spinning yarn,
signed 'K.E. Temple-Bird' (lower right),
oil on board,
29.5 x 25 cm, framed 47.5 x 42 cm

Provenance: By family descent

Exhibited:
New English Art Club label verso,
1940 - Royal Academy Gem Room,
1942 - St.Ives’ Society of Artists, Spring show,
1946 - Royal Society of Portrait Painters,
1946/47 - Art Exhibition Bureau (AEB) Tour of the country, a selection from the Royal Society of
Portrait Painters’ Exhibition of 1946,
1950 - Paris Salon,
1952 - Society of Women Artists,
1954 - Society of Women Artists

Footnotes:
Kathleen Temple-Bird produced this copy of her original portraits as they had been purchased by the French Government in 1934. These originals now reside in Centre Pompidou, Paris.
A complete set of research notes is included with this lot. These include research on the sitter and images of paper clippings and exhibition catalogues - click the following link for further details - Mahatma Gandhi portrait Briefing Note.pdf. With thanks to the artist’s family for providing these notes.

Biography:
Kathleen Temple-Bird was an artist, teacher and believer in Women’s suffrage. Having been brought up in Ipswich, she trained at the Slade School of Art before travelling to France and Italy. She later travelled alone across Canada, becoming Head of Art at Havergal College, Toronto. She married in 1911 and settled in London, where she exhibited the majority of her paintings, but moved to St Ives for the duration of the Second World War. Further details on the artist are available at the following website - Kathleen Temple-Bird Artist

Condition Report

Slightly dirty and will benefit from a clean. Board is very slightly convex but otherwise sound. There is no evidence of restoration visible under UV light. Under glass and unexamined out of frame.