Marjorie Papageorge
(Colombo, Ceylon 1916 - 2015 London)

Alexandrian Still Life with Coffee Pot, c.1940s

oil on canvas

56 x 45 cm.
(framed 70 x 60 cm.)
in a period frame

Provenance

from the Papageorge Estate

Born Marjorie Blackmore, 1916, in Colombo, Ceylon, as it then was. Studied at the RAM in

London before moving to Alexandria, Egypt, about 1940. There she joined a group of artists,

found her own studio, showed locally. With the Suez Crisis of 1956, she moved to England,

and trained, and worked as an art teacher. After her marriage to Aristide Papageorge, whom

she had met in Alexandria, he joined her in London. She died in 2015, aged 99.