Portrait of a Debutante Black & White de Chirico and Picabia

de Chirico and Picabia

I wonder then how knowing his public would have been about the two ladies walking arm in arm in the background

It sparks all manner of Hiraeth for me as although I live in a particularly verdant Welsh county

Medium Details: Ink and 23ct Champagne gold leaf on 640gsm smooth watercolour paper

I’m at a loss

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