Portrait of a New York Debutante - Lucille B Harris 1944 reserved a girl lost in thought

a girl lost in thought or perhaps regret

It is an endless mystery to me that paintings of this quality and decorative potential

Alberto was the master of all genres and need no more introduction here

This painting is at our Cecil Court gallery

Rita Hayworth and Charlie Chaplin

Portrait of a New York Debutante - Lucille B Harris 1944 reserved a girl lost in thought"I have spent more time researching this young lady than any other painting in years. I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and its a pretty good likeness! This is Lucille, the scion of two of New Yorks wealthiest families, in the flower of youth and in the greatest city in the largest country in the free world at the height of a global conflict. Despite her