Category: Portrait Sketches
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Shizue
Read more: ShizueA pencil sketch of a young girl, Shizue. Probably one of the children of ours servants while we lived in Okinawa, Japan from1953 to 1955. The Japanese characters…..
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Mohammed Ali Hussein
Read more: Mohammed Ali HusseinThis is a sketch of Mohammed Ali Hussein, the cook while my parents lived in Cairo, Egypt,
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Mimi Coertze
Read more: Mimi CoertzeMy best guess is this is a drawing of Mimi Coertze, a very famous soprano opera singer from South Africa. You can read about her …..
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Lauren Bacall
Read more: Lauren BacallUndoubtedly drawn while working for Gaumont-British Publicity headquarters in Haymarket, London as a staff artist in 1948.
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Pablo Picasso
Read more: Pablo PicassoAfter some considerable research, I think this is a sketch of Pablo Picasso from the mid 1940’s while my mother was working for the London Evening Standard. There seem to be…..
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Boris Karloff
Read more: Boris KarloffI believe this is a sketch of Boris Karloff, done by my mother when she was working for the Evening Standard in London, immediately after the war in 1946. At that time …..
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Katie White Drawing
Read more: Katie White DrawingA very early work, drawn of fellow student Katie White….