6879

Study portrait

Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares, née Graziella Patiño Rodríguez 1931
Head and shoulders slightly to the right, head turned in three-quarter profile to the left, her dark hair pinned up in a plait, a vivid blue gown or wrap indicated around her bare shoulders

Oil on board, 89.6 x 68.6 cm (35 ¼ x 27 in.)

Inscribed lower right: de László / 1931   

Sitters’ Book II, f. 67: Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Février 15- 1931.  

Private Collection

This study portrait was painted by de László two years after he executed Graziella de Ortiz Linares’s three-quarter length portrait [6875]. As she and her husband had lent de László their drawing room as a makeshift studio in 1931, it is likely that the present work was painted by the artist in sign of gratitude. It was there, at number 34 Avenue Foch, that de László painted the sitter’s father, Simón Patiño [6872], her sister Luz Mila, Countess Guy de Boisrouvray [6884], and her sister-in-law to be, Cristina de Borbón y Bosch Labrús [13717].

The artist recorded in his diary that he started the present portrait on 13 February: “afternoon – painted a sketch of Mrs Ortiz-Linares [6879] nearly finished it – another half an hour – a very attractive Incas head – nearly Chinese.”^[1] It seems de László still worked on the portrait for another hour, two days later: “afternoon painted for one hour Mde Ortiz Linares.”^[2]

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [6875].

PROVENANCE:

By descent in the family

LITERATURE:

•László, Philip de, 1931 diary, 13 February entry, p. 47

•Vecko Journalen^[3], April 1933, p. 17, ill.

•George Ortiz, Introduction by George Ortiz, New York, 1996, p. 11, ill.

•Hart-Davis, Duff, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, De László: His Life and Art, Yale University Press, 2010, p. 222

SMdeL 2012