Valerie was born on the 14 September 1929. She grew up in Wright Street, Middle Park, and attended the Brigidine Convent, Kilbride, on Beaconsfield Parade.
As a young women she demonstrated prodigious artistic talent and studied under Archie and Amalie Colquhoun, contemporaries of Max Meldrum and later, at the National Gallery School under Sir William Dargie, eight times winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture.
A 20th Century Australian oil on canvas depicting an unusual slave market with naked white slaves. Painted by a student from the Norman Lindsay School.
Exceptional large desktop sculpture of two terns in flight above cresting waves 1935 by the acclaimed French animal sculptor Irénée Rochard (1906-1984).
Crisply cast in spelter with good detail (note the feathers and feet) and a bronze coloured finish, on an oval black marble plinth base.
Signed clearly ‘Rochard’. Excellent original condition. Note the two birds detach from the wave for delivery.
