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Fisher Folk

Isa Jobling

Art Funded
1993
Dimensions
122 x 95 cm
Vendor
Mr Marshall Hall
It shows two fisher-women from the North Yorkshire village of Staithes.

It was the last major painting before her marriage and marked the end of the artist's ambitious series of paintings of fisher-women.

Provenance

Osborne Antiques, Newcastle 1980.

Oil on canvas

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