Lot 83
83
Keith Money
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Keith Money

Details
Keith Money
Swan Lake scene
signed, emulsion on canvas -- 37x95in. (94x241cm.) framed -- the painting used by Fonteyn as a headboard for her bed in the hotel suite at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London which became her home for a number of years
Literature
MONEY, Keith Margot assoluta, New Zealand: Fair Prospect Imprint, 2000, p.192
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Keith Money painted this scene for Fonteyn in order to brighten up her rather impersonal hotel room. He apparently used emulsion as he felt that it would be more durable and practical for its purposes as a headboard.

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