Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved This young lady needs a

This young lady needs a good home

As a Monmouthshire boy I’m disappointed only to crowbar one Welsh painter into the show but David is a fine ambassador for our shared culture

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Professional illustrators have always made great figurative painters

presented his own show on Radio Luxembourg and was a panellist in the 1950s and 60s on ‘What’s My Line

Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved This young lady needs aSomehow portraits of women by women artists of the early twentieth century have a certain historical frisson. When this was painted in 1938, the Great War had been over for two decades and the societal changes it wrought had led to political and social freedoms that would have been unthinkable to many women at the turn of the century. Elsa would have known a world of corsets and stays in 1880s Boston, a lifetime away from the simple black evening