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Preparatory drawing
Mrs Robert Celestin Guinness, née Dorothy Hilda Bingham 1935
Head and shoulders, slightly to the right, head turned full face and looking to the left, wearing a dress, necklace and drop earrings.
Chalk on paper, 35.4 x 24.5 cm (14 x 9 ⅝ in.)
Inscribed verso top left: 307
Sitters’ Book II, opp. f. 85: Dickie Guinness. Oct. 24th. 1935
Studio Inventory p. 161 (307): Mrs Robert Guinness
Private Collection
This is a preparatory drawing for a three-quarter length portrait de László painted of Mrs Robert Guinness [3030], married to the nephew of his wife Lucy. Both the present picture and a second preparatory drawing [3029] remained in the artist’s studio until his death.
PROVENANCE:
In the possession of the artist on his death;
Patrick de Laszlo his fourth son;
By descent
KF 2021