Lot 466: HALE, KATHLEEN.

ORLANDO RECLINING AMONGST FLOWERS

370 by 465mm., oil on canvas, signed "K. Hale", framed, frame chipped with loss to lower left corner

LITERATURE

A Slender Reputation pp.205-214, 256-258.

NOTE

oil paintings on this large scale of orlando himself are uncommon. Due to the heavy work-load necessitated by the style of her books, Hale rarely got the chance to produce large-scale finished paintings relating to the characters in her books. During the late 1950s and 1960s she did produce a series of large oil-paintings, mostly of "fishes and birds in watery landscapes" for the antiquarian booksellers Stevens and Brown in London, all of which sold immediately, including one she described as Grace in the style of Hogarth's 'Shrimp Girl'.