HORST P. HORST, LATE 1940S

The present lot illustrates Elsie de Wolfe seated in front of her portrait by Giovanni Boldini, a painting she cropped as the lower portion displeased her. Boldini (1842-1931) was a renowned European society painter whose portraits included those of Madame Seligman, the Marchesa Luis a Casati and Madame Geoges Victor-Hugo