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Peter Blake
George Orwell, 1965
Author:
Peter BlakeBio:
Dartford, Inglaterra, 1932Title:
George OrwellDate:
1965Medium:
Óleo sobre madeiraDimensions:
16 x 14,5 x 3 cmCredit line:
Aquisição, 1966Object type:
PinturaInventory number:
MASP.00435Photography credits:
João Musa
George Orwell, this minute, but extremely beautiful portrait of the great English writer, essayist, and journalist, who died in 1950, is obviously not representative of Blake’s work and reveals a skilled portraitist.
— Unknown authorship, 1998
Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).