Portrait of the Pianist and Composer Grace Castagnetta at the Piano medium it could easily have been

it could easily have been painted in the early twentieth century

with the textures of bare clay next to the glazed bits

While her portraiture is beautifully tender

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

Portrait of the Pianist and Composer Grace Castagnetta at the Piano medium it could easily have beenThis 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.