Portrait of the Pianist and Composer Grace Castagnetta at the Piano medium A slightly exotic bird sits

A slightly exotic bird sits on the back of a bull

I took inspiration from the striped

Her son inherited the Earldom and became a professional photographer as Patrick Litchfield

it could easily have been painted in the early twentieth century

Portrait of the Pianist and Composer Grace Castagnetta at the Piano medium A slightly exotic bird sitsThis tender portrait depicts the American pianist, writer, composer and arranger Grace Castagnetta (1912 98). Probably painted in the 1940s it shows off Klinghoffer's talent for characterization and her masterly ability in capturing the movement of the sitter's hands as they alight on the keys.