Or Is It Renate 51?

[poliphilo]

 Renate Meyer was born in 1930. Her family emigrated from Germany to England in 1933. They all aquired British citizenship in 1938. She entered art school at the age of 17 and it was there that she met Charles Keeping- whom she married in 1952. In 1955 she participated in a travelling exhibition entitled Three Young British Painters. She and Charles had four children. His career (as a book illustrator) was the starrier, hers the more experimental. After his death in 1988, she converted part of the family home- in Shortlands in the London Borough of Bromley- into the Keeping Gallery- where work by both Keepings is on permanent display. She died in 2014 aged 84.

Even if she didn't paint our still life- and I have persuaded myself she did- I'm happy to have made her aquaintance....

By the way, Ailz thinks it's Renate 51, not Renate 57. She says she was taught to draw ones that way- with a little sloping roof attached to the left hand side of the upright.  I think it could be either. 

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[mallorys_camera]

Agreed! 😀