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de Chirico and Picabia
possibly a device to discretely spare his sitter’s blushes
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This is pure 1950s nostalgia
It sparks all manner of Hiraeth for me as although I live in a particularly verdant Welsh county
Portrait of a Debutante Black & White de Chirico and Picabia"This rather contemplative young woman however is a later work, a serious commission for one of the leading physicians of the day. Her father was Joseph Nassim the consultant physician to St. Georges and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital after the war. The shy young teenager is his daughter, sitting demurely in a beautiful silk gown it must surely be a coming out or at least a coming of age portrait. Later in life she was to marry the sculptor
