11697

Portrait drawing

Mrs Philip de László, née Lucy Madeleine Guinness  1926

Head-and-shoulders in semi-profile, wearing glasses

Sepia-grey ink on cream coloured paper, mounted on artists' card 18.5 x 14 cm (7 ¼ x 5 ½ in.)

Inscribed lower centre: Lucy after her bath / in Bed / how like your mother / Luci /

Inscribed lower right: 1926

Private Collection

The artist probably made this spontaneous and rather unflattering little sketch to tease his wife. De László’s inscription seems to refer to a drawing he made of the sitter’s mother in 1901 [12966], which indeed bears strong similarities to the present one.

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [6765].

PROVENANCE:          

In the possession of the artist on his death;

Bridget Craig-Brown, his niece by marriage, who inscribed a transcription of the inscription verso and added by P.A. de Laszlo in blue biro

SdeL 2008