Dried Sunflowers Still Lifes A giant of twentieth century

A giant of twentieth century western illustration and drawing

I’m not sure if this is a portrait from life or Levenson’s imagined ideal

Suffice to say he led a full and interesting life on the London stage and in 1930s Hollywood

Medium Details: Acrylic ink and 23ct Red gold leaf on 640gsm textured watercolour paper

sitting demurely in a beautiful silk gown it must surely be a coming out or at least a coming-of-age portrait

Dried Sunflowers Still Lifes A giant of twentieth centuryAn artist whose career mirrors so many of her generation. Pat Algar studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Academy in the 1960s, a bright and promising student she married soon after graduation and moved to Cornwall never to be heard of again. Her studio sale in a Cornish auction house said as much as any museum retrospective could about the trajectory of her career. Most of the lots were painted in the last forty years of her life and