Jewellery Store, Delhi Still Lifes standing atop a vintage tool

standing atop a vintage tool box

and who knows

It does happen occasionally but short of the painter using a pseudonym to dodge a gallery contract – as often happened – or a joker adding their name for some spurious reason

The annual would get passed around elderly relatives at Christmas and old book shelves in back bedrooms would be mouldering with bound volumes of unread copies

mostly selling for a few hundred here and there and I feel a certain poignancy that she is now remembered for these ordinary little pot boilers rather than the early oils that augured such a dazzling future

Jewellery Store, Delhi Still Lifes standing atop a vintage tool