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Mrs Fairhurst by Theodore Major

In Major’s own words, Mrs Fairhurst ‘worked for Kathleen and me when we lived in Swindley Road.  Everyone thought she was a bit mad, but she wasn’t, but she talked to herself’.

‘She’s a marvellous person but I just couldn’t get her to sit on the chair while I made a sketch of her, I had to do everything from memory.  I said “Mrs Fairhurst, come on up to the studio, I want to paint you” but she’s too busy doing housework, that was more important to her’.

‘I’ve painted many pictures of her from memory, I think some of those are some of the best I’ve painted’.

Signed to the reverse.

Provenance: Clark Art, Hale.