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the work in 1955. It was under his ownership in Dinton, England until 1986, when it was auctioned at
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Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade shows
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extolled the "individuality and life in the face of the sitter," while also chastising its "forced" use of light in the foreground and "cold" manner in which the painting was executed, resulting in "no hint of tenderness, no suspicion of poetry" in the work at large. Furthermore, while the
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was featured in three additional special exhibitions. The first was an exhibition of selected new acquisitions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in 1987, in which it received special distinction amongst the other highlighted works.
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with a bright light washing over her fair skin and white satin dress. She sits on a wooden bench upholstered with a red floral cushion, and is adorned with sparkling bracelets and a choker in addition to a white fan.
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