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RECTO

Preparatory work
Admiral Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary 1935

Seated three-quarter length to the left, looking full face to the viewer, wearing naval uniform, a cloak over his shoulders, his left hand grasping the handle of a sword, his right hand holding an indistinct object                                                                                                                                                                                 Black chalk heightened with white on paper, 35.3 x 24.6 cm (14 x 9 ¾ in.)

Inscribed top left in black ink: 217 Inscribed top right: The Regent / Horthy

Inscribed lower right: 1935 III  Bpest / PA de L  

Inscribed top centre: Regent of Hungary 1935  [in John de Laszlo’s hand^[1]]

Sitters' Book II, f. 80:  Horthy / 19 III 935 [at the top right hand corner in the artist’s hand: Budapest / Royal Palace]                                                                                                                                       

Studio Inventory p. 159 (271):  Study of the Regent of Hungary / Study of Signor Putti, on reverse.

Private Collection

This is a preparatory drawing for de László's portrait of Admiral Horthy, commissioned by the Hungarian Parliament and painted at the Royal Palace in Budapest in 1935 [110886]. 

A portrait of Doctor Vittorio Putti [112230] is on the verso of this sheet.

For biographical details of the sitter, see [110886].

PROVENANCE:
In the possession of the artist on his death

LITERATURE:
•László, Philip de, January-June 1935 diary, private collection

KF 2013