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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 it’s a pretty good likeness
The Grant painting was sold by Whitten’s family at Auction in 2014
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
His nudes were never titillating and he always appeared to have great respect for his models and feminine beauty throughout his long career
Indeed Whitten was a devotee of Duncan Grant and a purchaser of at least one of his works
A Still Summer's Evening across the Sound of Iona Still Lifes I imagined that it was
