Mrs Ree Alice Gorer

Mediums: gouache, paper, millboard.
Location: The Tate Gallery, London (the UK).

Tchelitchew met the Gorer family in 1926 in Paris. The English people, the mother and her three sons, became close friends of the young artist. In particular, they helped a lot with preparing for the show at the Claridge Gallery when Pavel fell ill and was unable to attend it. The middle-aged lady (at the time of the creation of the portrait she was 57) sits in a deep Voltaire armchair, her hands folded on her lap. The pale palette of the whole work is also calm: simple clothes, warm background and diffused lighting from the invisible window.