Salotto Italiano (Italian Drawing Room) Still Lifes celebrating the optimism and rediscovery

celebrating the optimism and rediscovery of England and Englishness that accompanied the new Elizabethan era of the 1950s

The artist is presumably one of those illustrators or caricaturists who made a good living filling magazines and club walls with portraits of the stars of the day

One of those unsung heroes of twentieth century British art that I’m always on my soap box about

In his later life

Somehow portraits of women by women artists of the early twentieth century have a certain historical frisson

Salotto Italiano (Italian Drawing Room) Still Lifes celebrating the optimism and rediscoveryIn our Cecil Court Gallery