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Study portrait

Ernest Verrucci Bey 1929

Full length slightly to the left, looking full face to the viewer, wearing a red fez, white tie and a long dark jacket, a chain of office around his neck, his left hand holding his gloves by his side, his right wrist resting on the base of a gilt decorated column, all in a palatial interior

Oil on board, 51 x 37 cm (20 x 14 ½ in.)

Inscribed lower left: de László / 1929

Sitters’ Book II, f. 62: Ernest Verrucci [among other signatures dated 1929]

Pinacoteca Civica, Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

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