From the Artist:
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu.
Remembrance of lost time or remembrance of things past.
The model for the painting, Mimi Scherb, was an actress when younger.
I never knew her stage name. One of her notable roles was in a movie, 1949, I believe, The Snake Pit. It was quite an advanced film for that time.
It was about a woman, played by Olivia the Haviland, having a nervous breakdown, and being committed to a mental institution. It filmed her breakdown and recovery very sensitively.
A film, that would probably be called a docudrama, today.
Mimi, played one of the inmates at the institution. She still remembered her lines, probably 40 years later!
I felt at the time, everyone is painting sort of attractive, shapely nudes.
Mimi carried herself, her age and her body, with a quiet dignity.
That was the quality I tried to capture in my painting.
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