Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved Medium details: Oil and 22

Medium details: Oil and 22 ct moon gold leaf

but Andy’s work has taught me that bright ness does not make things discordant

Medium Details: Ink & Gold Leaf on Watercolour Paper

Guy Lipscombe was a graphic artist and illustrator but also a sought-after portrait painter

with their combination of sublime layouts

Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved Medium details: Oil and 22Somehow portraits of women by women artists of the early twentieth century have a certain historical frisson. When this was painted in 1938, the Great War had been over for two decades and the societal changes it wrought had led to political and social freedoms that would have been unthinkable to many women at the turn of the century. Elsa would have known a world of corsets and stays in 1880s Boston, a lifetime away from the simple black evening