Black, White and Rose – New Gouaches by Maurice Vellekoop
Above is a portrait of Fleur Cowles from a 2003 piece in the NY Times magazine. The Balenciaga dress is the same she wore to Elizabeth the Second’s coronation in 1952!
Balenciaga happens to be another Vellekoop obsession…his late work from the ’60s – modernity steeped in historicism.
The de Young sisters at the de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, also from an Aarons photograph.
Here is a portrait of Babe Paley, one of Truman Capote’s “swansâ€.
Here is a portrait of Ms. Dunaway in her role of Bonnie from the film “Bonnie and Clydeâ€.
April 2, 2012