Rita Angus - Print - Leo Bensemann SIZE:A2 This is a painter’s painting

This is a painter’s painting

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which is enhanced by the close cropping of Bensemann’s figure

Rita Angus - Print - Leo Bensemann SIZE:A2 This is a painter’s paintingORDERING NOTE: Print to Order Allow 1 month In February 1938 Leo Bensemann and his companion Lawrence Baigent moved into a studio flat next door to Rita Angus at 97 Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch. Both studios opened on to a shared kitchen, and the three friends met for meals in the evenings and often hosted parties together. Between them they had a wide social network, and the Cambridge Terrace studios soon became a hub of the local art world,