Portrait of a New York Debutante - Lucille B Harris 1944 reserved the scion of two of

the scion of two of New York’s wealthiest families

a girl lost in thought or perhaps regret

This portrait is stylistically similar to her celebrated 1941 portrait of the young Gloria Vanderbilt

a young man loads her Louis Vuitton cases into a sea plane behind her as the New York skyline rises majestically beyond

Alberto was the master of all genres and need no more introduction here

Portrait of a New York Debutante - Lucille B Harris 1944 reserved the scion of two of"I have spent more time researching this young lady than any other painting in years. I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and its a pretty good likeness! This is Lucille, the scion of two of New Yorks wealthiest families, in the flower of youth and in the greatest city in the largest country in the free world at the height of a global conflict. Despite her