Peter (A Young English Girl) 1923-1924

*Peter (A Young English Girl) 1923-1924, oil on canvas. Romaine Brooks's portrait of British painter Hannah Gluckstein is sublimely monochromatic and modern. Hannah Gluckstein, or 'Gluck' to her friends, experimented with fashion and gender blurring. In a 1918 letter to her brother: "I am flourishing in a new garb. Intensely exciting. Everybody likes it... I hope you will like it because I intend to wear that sort of thing always"*