Rediscovery

Clara Klinghoffer had a richly varied life, spanning Eastern Europe to Manchester to the East End to Holland, to America, to Mexico, coming to hold four nationalities. Her career took her from working-class beginnings in London to a more comfortable life, against both a changing political landscape and art world.

Recently, her work was included in two 2018 exhibitions rediscovering neglected female artists: 'Prize and Prejudice' (UCL and '50 50: Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists 1900-1915 (Mercer's Hall, London; and University of Leeds. She is represented in UK collections including Aberdeen Art Gallery, the Ben Uri Collection, the British Museum, Kettle's Yard, the National Portrait Gallery and Tate.

Her ‘rediscovery’ continues through the overdue recognition of women artists and will be included in an important exhibition at Tate in 2025. Her reputation will continue to grow as the early comparisons and praise she inspired a century ago are again being recognised.

‘I consider Clara Klinghoffer an artist of great talent, a painter of the first order…Her understanding of form places her in the very first rank of draughtsmen in the world.’ - Sir Jacob Epstein

‘If ever there was an artist who for some time has been unjustly forgotten, it is Clara Klinghoffer While the temporary eclipse of her reputation was not, given trends in the visual arts, surprising, it is certainly lamentable.’ - Terence Mullaly in The Daily Telegraph, 1981

‘Clara Klinghoffer has a precious gift; the power of transmuting the facts of experience into the gold of expression.’ - J.B. Manson, curator of the Tate Gallery 1930 – 1938