Portrait of The Hon, Lady Fry. The head and shoulders of Lady Fry, who is lying in bed, are seen inclined at 45 degrees. A small table is placed on the bed left foreground. Dominant are the cream of the bed-linen and the purple- red of the coverlet, wallpaper and the subject's gown woman.
This painting by Walter Sickert shows a woman lying in bed. The painting was commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Fry. The Hon Alathea Fry was a daughter of Lord Burghclere. The composition, showing the head and shoulders of Lady Fry in a purple-red gown against cream bed-linen, is based on a photograph, specially taken, and which caught the sitter unawares while she was reading the morning papers. The painting can be seen in the background of Marjorie Oliver's painting of Sickert.
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