Mária Lehel (1889-1972) Portrait d'une femme (peut-être Clarice Lispector) signed and dated 'Lehel Maria 1946' (upper left) pastel and black pencil on paper 62.8 x 47.6cm (24 3/4 x 18 3/4in). Executed in 1946 Provenance Private collection, UK. Private collection, London (acquired from the above in 2023). A rare figure whose career linked the artistic cultures of Central Europe, France, Italy and Brazil, Mária Lehel occupies a distinctive place within the international modernist diaspora of the t