Harry John Pearson RBA 1920s Art Deco Girl

An original early 20th-century oil painting, Harry John Pearson RBA, 1920s Art Deco Girl.

This beguiling portrait of a young girl named Audrey Hughes showcases the talent of Harry John Pearson as an iconic figure painter of the 1920s.

The portrait of the girl, in wonderful 1920s dress and haircut, is at the same time both delicately painted and monumental. Her figure almost fills the height of the canvas, and, positioned towards the edge of a cliff with distant sea below, she is given real presence and power despite her young age.

The painting is rendered in a beautiful harmonious palette of blues and greens, with touches of pink, echoing the girl's skin-tone, to suggest flowers in the left foreground