On the one hand, it memorializes an origin of Bachardy’s intense commitment to portraiture as an artistic genre. The Los ...

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Two rather inert pencil sketches (Montgomery Clift and Bette Davis), made when Bachardy was ... While the camera has long since replaced drawing and painting as portraiture’s primary medium ...

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Isaac Oliver via Wikimedia Commons Though more than 400 years have passed since they were painted, her portraits are as recognizable as a movie star’s: the receding red hair studded with pearls ...

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