Sir Osbert Sitwell Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Osbert Sitwell NPG 6320

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frank Owen Dobson

This fine, thoughtful and slightly cubist bust of Sir Osbert Sitwell was the result of a commission from the sitter to Frank Dobson in 1921. Dobson was widely regarded as an extremely promising sculptor, working in a modern idiom under the influence of Brancusi and Gaudier-Brzeska. Sitwell went for sittings in the artist's house in Manresa Road, Chelsea, almost every day for a period of three months in late 1921 and early 1922, just at the time when he, his sister Edith and their... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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