Oil on canvas, retains two gallery labels to the verso, unsigned, framed.

Frame dimensions 41 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.

Private Collection, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Liverpool born, Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge is best known for her fiction writing. She was awarded the Whitbred Award twice and five times nominated for the Booker Prize.

Yellowing varnish; stable craquelure; large bulge and dent in upper left corner of canvas with associated paint crackle; two small paint flakes in lower left quadrant.