3 girls and their mother, is a very awkward painting. It’s maybe the sort of painting you might describe as seemingly badly executed. And that might be the case.... But the way I read it is that the awkwardness of the drawing, the delineation of the figures, is a metaphor for the gaucheness of the children at that rather awkward transitional period between 10-14, or whatever age they are, it must be around that age. http://mondriansroom.squarespace.com/journal/jeremy-lewison-a-conversation.html