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Sarah Bernhardt
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Sarah Bernhardt

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Sarah Bernhardt
A portrait of the painter and illustrator, W. Graham Robertson, graphite on paper, signed in pencil by the artist, Sarah Bernhardt -- 7x6½in. (18x16.5cm.), framed; and a book of reminiscences by W. Graham Robertson, Time Was, London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1945, seventh edition (2)
來源
Ex-Lot 108 The Property of the late Graham Robertson, Christie's, London, 22 July 1949
出版
ROBERTSON, W. Graham Time Was, London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1945, p.112
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拍品專文

In his memoirs, W. Graham Robertson devotes a chapter to his friendship with the actress Sarah Bernhardt. He describes how she ...very kindly and patiently... sat for him on numberous occasions, and that Sometimes for a change, she would draw me and usually got a very recognisable likeness, though she did not take any pride in her drawing or painting...