Olga Lehmann

(Chile 1912 - 2001 Saffron Walden)

Underwater Fantasy

gouache on cartridge paper

signed and dated lower left 'Olga Lehmann 1949'

30 x 30 cm.

in a period frame

Olga Lehmann won a scholarship to the Slade in 1929, where she studied under Henry Tonks and Randolph Schwabe, ultimately specialising in set deisgn under Vladimir Polunin. 

In the 1930s she became known for her murals and exhibited with the London Group and Royal Society of Portrait Painters. She worked out of a studio in Hampstead, that was bombed during the Blitz in 1940, so much of her early work was destroyed. After WWII she earned a living through her graphic designs for the Radio Times, as well as for film and television.