110693

Portrait drawing

Alice de Stuers 1920

Head-and-shoulders, full-face to the viewer, her head resting on her right hand, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, a ring and necklace just indicated

Pencil and chalk on paper, 45 x 34 cm (18 x 13 ½ in.)

Inscribed lower right: To my charming Hostess / Alice de Stuers / De wiersee [sic] / 1920. oct. 2. / P.A. de László

Sitters’ Book II, f.16: Alice de Stuers. 1st October 1920

Private Collection

De László painted this sketch at the sitter’s house, De Wiersse. It was followed by an oil painting [110695] a few months later.

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [110695].

EXHIBITED:          

•Museum Van Loon Amsterdam De László in Holland, Dutch Masterpieces by Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937), 3 March-5 June 2006, no. 46    

LITERATURE:         

•The Studio Magazine, London, 1921, vol. LXXXI, p. 51, ill. p. 79

•International Studio, vol. 73, March 1921, opp. p. 50

•Grever, Tonko and Annemieke Heuft (Sandra de Laszlo, British ed.), De László in Holland: Dutch Masterpieces by Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937), Paul Holberton publishing, London, 2006, pp. 10, 72, 74, 75, ill. no. 46

CWS 2006