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Marguerite

Artist: Johnstone, Dorothy, ARSA · 1892-1980

This portrait of the artist's younger sister Rona aged about 9 was painted in John Duncan's studio at Torphichen Street. Dorothy often used Rona as a model and there are a number of studies of her when she was training to be a dancer. Rona in conversation with the collections assistant in 2003 recalled that Dorothy did make some preliminary pencil sketches but on the whole had a tendency to work straight on to canvas directly from the model.