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...face is familiar, but . . . Italian Painter Pietro Annigoni, 56, wouldn't say who she was, though he did tell a wry tale about his portrait of the lady in London's Upper Grosvenor Gallery. "This woman came all the way from California to my studio in Florence," he chuckled. "She said: 'I have the most beautiful body in the world, and I wish you to paint me in the nude.' I had never had a proposition like that before. I thought it was a commission. As it turned out, it wasn't. All she wanted...
When the sitter for this week's cover by Italian Painter Pietro Annigoni saw the finished sketch at No. 10 Downing Street one morning last week, he wondered at first if there wasn't something a little wrong about the eyes. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson showed the drawing to an aide and asked if his eyes really closed that much. Assured that they did when he was thinking or talking, the Prime Minister warmed up to the work and smiled his approval. He had but one suggestion. He asked that there be sufficient space...
...Annigoni, who is best known in Britain for his portraits of the Royal Family and probably most remembered by TIME readers for his covers of Pope John XXIII and John F. Kennedy, is one of a score of artists regularly commissioned by TIME...
...sketch for TIME by the Italian artist Pietro Annigoni...
...Annigoni had four one-hour sittings with Erhard for this week's cover, painting for ten minutes at a stretch, then letting Erhard rest for five. Erhard asked if he might read and smoke during the sittings, and was told please, no. But he grunted a jovial approval of the final portrait...