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Following on from here are some of Cora's Portraits, and other miscellaneous works. She was an accomplished portraitist, and had a brilliant technique of drawing on glossy paper with a fountain pen; in the 1930's she would spend hours in Hyde Park just drawing heads of character.
The Albanian series of heads were drawn as she rode horseback though the mountainous. They were washed with dilute honey as a fixative.
They are in no particular order, especially teh pen drawings as I am still discovering them.
The Albanian series of heads were drawn as she rode horseback though the mountainous. They were washed with dilute honey as a fixative.
They are in no particular order, especially teh pen drawings as I am still discovering them.
![]() I have rarely been able to put a name to Cora's portraits, but this Albanian chap is identified as
"LYIK LUKA" our old chieftain. circa 1925 black chalk and oil on paper |
![]() This is the medieval scholar and good friend of the Gordons
Robert Steele. In the possession of the Steele family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Steele_%28medievalist%29 |
![]() Hat Booth Najac.
A retouched original of an illustration from the book. copy right of Art image direct who will be pleased to sell further copies of this and 4 Jan Gordon pictures from their stock of originals http://www.artimagedirect.com/ |
![]() Pigs, cats and poultry were favourite subjects for Cora. These two appeared in Coterie Magazine circa 1920 |
This little group are Cora Gordon's fountain pen drawings at which she was so skilled, done with a Waterman pen on shiny paper; of which examples in my possession are a bit like old fashioned Loo paper!! These, judging by the source from which they came, one of Cora's artist friends, are likely of London characters circa 1930s
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Titled 'Little Rembrandt' this fountain pen sketch was exhibited at a Womens International Art Club exhibition sometime in late 1940s, priced 4gns.
It was the very first art of Cora I bought back in 1984; and it later turned out to be of Jan Gordons godson,circa 192-, and was identified as such by the godson himself. A throughly decent man. Now sadly gone.