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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 52| August 2001


Portrait of Nora Heysen

Nora Heysen

Pictured is one of two portraits of the artist Nora Heysen by her father Sir Hans Heysen, which were recently acquired to complement the Library’s documentation of Ms Heysen’s life and career. Nora Heysen donated the drawings following the Library’s successful exhibition earlier this year on Ms Heysen’s life and art.

 


Hans Heysen, Sir, 1877–1968.
[Study of Nora Heysen as a child] c.1925
1 drawing: pencil on paper 20.4 x 12.7 cm.

Pictorial Collection PIC/4010

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