"Lady Lilith" Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) Oil on canvas 38 x 33 1/2 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
On Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “He’s the worst of the Pre-Raphaelites, his work seems to be the nearest a painting can get to bad breath.” Lucian Freud as told to Martin Gayford in “Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud”.
Lucian Freud, "Man with a Blue Scarf", 2004
Books of interest:
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Artist Leslie Parke lives on the New York/Vermont border and works in a studio that spans the top floor of a 19th century factory building. Over the years she has worked on both sides of the pond in Sweden, France and Germany.
