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Shadow-puppet-maker and animator Lotte Reiniger is seen working at a table, outdoors in the garden, at the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet. She is seen cutting out a figure in black paper. A small, hand-painted toy theatre stands on a low brick wall to…

Photograph showing the Royal Mail van at the gates of the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet. The van is marked 'Barnet' on the door. A sign reading 'Abbey Art Centre' is mounted on the vine-covered wall to the left while the street number '89' is just…

Informal group photograph at the Abbey Art Centre. Jean Renoir stands closest to the camera, back turned, looking on as his second wife Dido Freire is greeted by Lotte Reiniger (who wears a long string of beads); the car (possibly a taxi cab) by…

Group photograph at the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet, left to right: Carl Koch, Dido Freire, unidentified seated woman (possibly Dido Freire's mother?), Jean Renoir, Lotte Reiniger, British sculptor Peter King (seated at front).

Signed in black upper left recto: ‘MAX NEWTON'.

Inscribed in the image lower left recto: 'Noosa Woods Q Land'. Inscribed and signed in pencil lower centre recto: 'To "Ailsa" from Max Newton'.

Signed in black ink lower right recto: ‘Max Newton’. Inscribed in black ink lower right recto: ‘Ross / Edwards / composer / 71’; inscribed in black ink verso: Ross Edwards composer / $50 / by Max Newton 71 / Medium / ink + watercolour’.

Not signed. Not inscribed or dated.

Not signed. Not inscribed or dated.