5729

Preparatory drawing

Ailsa Mellon, later Mrs David K. E. Bruce 1926

Seated three-quarter length to the right, head turned slightly to the left, looking to the viewer, wearing an evening dress, her left elbow resting on the arm of a chair

Graphite on paper, 50.5 x 35.3 cm (19 ⅞ x 13 ⅞ in.)

Inscribed verso: 41 [black ink]; Miss Hope Iselin [graphite, in the hand of John de Laszlo, the artist’s  son]

Studio Inventory, p. 146 (41): Study of Miss Hope Iselin

Private Collection

This is a preparatory drawing for the finished portrait of Ailsa Mellon, later Mrs. David K. E. Bruce [6430]. It was wrongly identified in the artist’s studio inventory as being of Miss Hope Iselin [110831].

For biographical details of the sitter, see [6430].

PROVENANCE:

In the possession of the artist on his death

MD  2011