Mrs. Grell is shown wearing the gown worn by the artists’ grandmother back in Germany during the mid-nineteenth century. Grell also chose to draw the Schloss Nymphenburg Munich or School for the Nymphs into the background because Friedl was a ballerina in Munich when the two met around 1910. This life-size representation is one of four known significant portraits of the artists’ wife.
69″ tall x 53″ wide, c1925, oil on canvas, portrait of artists’ wife Fredricka Grell, held in a private collection
