Name: Julio Larraz (b. 1944)
Brand: Portrait of W. S. Maugham, Study II
Price: 2600.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Julio Larraz (b. 1944)
Portrait of W. S. Maugham, Study II
signed 'Larraz' (lower left)
oil on masonite
8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.40 cm.)
Painted circa mid-1970s.

Far Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above.
By descent from the above to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

In the mid-1970s, Larraz painted several pictures of the famous British novelist and playright, William Somerset Maugham, including Reflections (1974) and Dinner at Negresco's (1974). These pictures, including the present work, reflect a certain dignity and "nobility of old age"; here Maugham appears "perfectly in charge of his vast intellect, aware of hte works around him, ready to make any incdent he observes the subject of a literary masterpiece."[1]

Post Lot Text

1 E.J. Sullivan, Julio Larraz, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1989, p. 110.