Oil on board: 76.2 x 63.1 cm. The model is Kathleen Nancy Woodward, who was to be Brockhurst’s lifelong model and second wife. Brockhurst nicknamed her Kathleen Dorette. The two had begun an affair when she was only 16. Their liaison led to a scandalous divorce of Bronckhurst from his first wife Anais Folin, much sensationalised in the press. In 1930’s Britain the term 'Jeunesse Dorée' was applied to wealthy and fashionable young people. By 1940, at the outbreak of WW-II, the two moved from London to the USA where they spent the rest of their lives supported by patrons.
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