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Preparatory work

Cécile Elizabeth Florence Rankin, later Mrs John Grandy, then Lady Grandy 1937

Three-quarter length, in three-quarter profile and looking to the left, wearing an evening gown, some drapery just indicated in the background

Black pastel and highlighted with chalk on paper, 35.6 x 24.1 cm (17 ½ x 11 ¼ in.)

Inscribed lower left: 13 [upsidedown] Cecile Rankin / 12th June / P.A. de L. 

Sitters’ Book, II, f. 87: Cécile E.F. Rankin 21-5-37.

Private Collection

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