Gluck
Fascinating exhibition at the Fine Art Society of work by Gluck, a female artist working in the early 20th century. I’d not come across Gluck before which surprised me as would have thought in my reading about the Bloomsbury Group that she might have appeared. First and foremost I loved her work but she also led a fascinating life with a string of female lovers and various arguments with the art world. I loved her pictures of flowers including a beautiful one of Arum lilies in an ornate vase on a marble shelf against a cream background. I loved its smooth finish very redolent of the 1930s. There was also a stunning double portrait, a self-portrait of her with Nesta Obermer, one of her lovers. There were some lovely small pictures such as a loose sketch of someone painting in a landscape and an unusual composition “Before the Races” which was mostly a beautiful blue sky with a low line of the race course and a small group of tiny horses and men in one corner. I wa...