112289
VERSO
Preparatory work
The Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, née Lady Helen Magdalen Gordon-Lennox 1937
Standing full-length wearing a tiara, with columns in the background
Graphite on paper, 48.5 x 31.5 cm (19 ⅛ x 12 ⅜ in.)
Inscribed top left: 50 [on p. 50 of de László’s last sketchbook]
Sitters’ Book II, f. 87: Helen Northumberland Aug. 2nd 1937.
Private Collection
This is a preparatory study for the fourth and last portrait de László painted of the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland [6868]. It was completed on 6 August 1937 only a few months before the artist’s death in November.
For biographical notes on the sitter, see [6841].
PROVENANCE:
In the possession of the artist on his death
KF 2016