James Lloyd sold Medium Details: Caplain gold &

Medium Details: Caplain gold & ink on paper

We will never know whether this was a friend

an anonymous 1950s beauty with no past

Launching at Keep on Keeping on

A proponent both as a critic and painter of the American realist school he must have enjoyed the irony of winning second prize to Picasso’s first at the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930

James Lloyd sold Medium Details: Caplain gold &"The first piece I saw by James was his portrait of Paul Smith in the National Portrait Gallery. It is a masterpiece. I particularly admire his attention to composition and the under standing of where the viewers eye needs to be led."