Artist     Jeanne du Maurier
Title      The Bird Cage
Date      1970's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size       76 x 51cm
Ref          630

Purchased in the RWA Spring exhibition in 1979

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The Bird Cage
Born in 1911 Jeanne du Maurier was the youngest of three sisters of a famous family, the older sisters being Daphne, the writer and Angela also a writer, their father was the successful actor and theater manager Gerald Du Maurier. Jeanne chose to be a painter like her grandfather, George. In 1926 the family moved to Cornwall and Jeanne found yet more reason and inspiration to paint.

A private Person, Jeanne spent much of her life quietly working on her art and with her partner, the poet Noel Welch. During the war Jeanne and Angela du Maurier ran a market garden successfully organising the distribution of foodstuffs among the local population and for shipping to the cities.

Jeanne du Maurier's works, both landscape and inetriors are often illustrative in nature, boldly and strongly drawn with a sure hand and a seemingly faultless sense of colour and line. Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and is held in many public and private collections.

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