Eastern Beauty, ca. 1933

1930s, photography, photographie, fotografia, fotografía, Fotografie, portrait, Porträt, retrato, ritratto, portret, retrat, Bildnis, Violet Keene Perinchief, Violet Keene 1 Minute
Violet Keene Perinchief (1893-1967) :: Eastern Beauty. A portrait of a Chinese Lady, silver gelatin print mounted on exhibition board, Toronto, ca. 1933. [Original photograph signed lower left in pencil: Violet Keene] | src Bonhams
Violet Keene Perinchief (1893-1967) :: Eastern Beauty. A portrait of a Chinese Lady, silver gelatin print mounted on exhibition board, Toronto, ca. 1933. [Original photograph signed lower left in pencil: Violet Keene] | src Bonhams
This portrait has many of the classic Minna Keene (Violet Keene’s mother) attributes of her portraits taken in Cape Town around 1910, notably the floral background and position of the face looking away from the camera. [quoted from source]

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