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VERSO

Preparatory drawing

Doctor Vittorio Putti 1935
Half-length, full face, with his left hand resting against his chin
Sepia chalk heightened with white on paper, 35.3 x 24.6 cm (14 x 9 ¾ in.)      
Inscribed top left: Signor Putti [in John de Laszlo’s hand]

Sitters’ Book II, f. 81: Putti April 30 1935

Private Collection

This is a preparatory drawing for a formal half-length portrait painted by de Laszlo during several sittings with Dr. Putti commencing on 30 April, 1935 [111056] and completed on 4 May. The work is in the collection of Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna and housed in the Putti Library there.

A portrait of Admiral Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary [5689] is on the recto of this sheet. 

For biographical details of the sitter, see [111056].

PROVENANCE:
In the possession of the artist on his death

KF 2013