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Feeling Fornasetti
Marian's Fornasetti moment
My friend Marian has led a colourful life. With her late husband, Gordon Clarke – a filmmaker and photographer – she travelled around the world before settling down in Balmain here in Sydney.
Over morning tea recently she showed me some of Gordon’s pictures from the 1960s. I adore portraits – my favouite place in London is the National Portrait Gallery – so I was enthralled. This is an image he took of Marian, and it reminded me so much of the famous soprano Lina Cavalieri from a Piero Fornasetti drawing, I begged to borrow it so I could share it here. My plan is to have it digitally printed on white canvas before turning it into a cushion. Marian has given me her blessing.
Fornasetti the surrealist