MARKOVA (Dame Alicia, b. 1910, Ballerina) & Juliet PANNETT (1911-2005, Portrait Painter, FRSA)

Charcoal Portrait of Markova by Pannett signed by the sitter and the artist and dated by the sitter, showing her head and shoulders in profile, 14½" x 11", in frame 21" x 16", no place,

Juliet Pannett FRSA exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, and various local galleries in England,America and Hong Kong. She has 21 portraits in the National Portrait Gallery collection and a number in the House of Commons.
Among her portraits, many for official bodies, are ones of the Queen and other members of the Royal Family, Sir Winston Churchill, Douglas Bader,
David Cecil and C.S. Lewis. She has broadcast on art on television in Britain andAmerica and worked as Special Artist for the London Illustrated News
between 1957 and 1964. Her portraits are done from life and have that spontaneity often lost in more finished works by any artist. An exhibition of her work, under the title Juliet Pannett: Chronicler of her Times was on display from 8 December 2004 to 12 June 2005 at the National Portrait Gallery in celebration of her ninety-fourth year.

Item Date:  1958

Stock No:  33026      £225

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