As Shakespeare noted, 'every fair from fair sometime declines..' A tribute to beautiful women who, like The Who's Lily, are no longer with us.
Sunday, 26 May 2013
Demure, beautiful, knowing and alluring - Pauline Miller (1944)
Pauline in a Yellow Dress (1944) by Herbert James Gunn
(location - Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire, UK)
(Marie) Pauline Miller was the artist's second wife. When it was first exhibited, this painting was described by that renowned art journal, The Daily Mail, as the 'Mona Lisa of 1944'.
She died in 1950, aged just 49.
Labels:
Beautiful woman,
Herbert James Gunn,
Pauline in a Yellow Dress,
Pauline Miller,
portraiture,
sex appeal,
sophistication
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