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Portrait drawing

Mrs Philip de László, née Lucy Madeleine Guinness 1902

Head-and-shoulders in profile to the right, leaning back on a cushion or chair, a wide frilled broderie anglaise collar just indicated

Pencil on white paper, 22.9 x 28.9 cm (9 x 11 ⅜ in.)

Inscribed lower right: Semmering / 1902 / 1 Juni L.F.E.   

Private Collection

This intimate drawing was made by de László only two years after he married Lucy Guinness. It was done at Semmering, a village in the Styrian Alps, south west of Vienna. At the time, the couple was still based in their house in Budapest, but the following year they moved to Vienna which was more central for the increasing demands of the artist’s portrait painting practice.

PROVENANCE: 

In the possession of the artist on his death;

By descent

LITERATURE:

•Field, Katherine ed., Transcribed by Susan de Laszlo, The Diaries of Lucy de László Volume I: (1890-1913), de Laszlo Archive Trust, 2019, p. 60, ill.

•Laszlo, Lucy de, diary 1902-1911, 15 June 1902 entry, p. 29

SdeL 2008