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  • 'Man Makes the Beads of Life...'
  • 'The Dreamboat'
  • The final watercolours
  • 'The Legend of the Blackthorns'
  • 'Tis a Long Path...'
  • 'Prudence and Desire'
  • 'Psyche at the Well of Forgiveness'
  • 'The Choice'

'Man Makes the Beads of Life but Woman Must Thread Them', after 1911, Frances MacDonald McNair

Fantastical scene with naked central female figure with naked male figure to her left

Pencil and watercolour
s.b.r.: ‘FRANCES MACNAIR’
35.2 x 29.8 (13 5/8 x 11 15/16)

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