Oil on canvas: 163 x 91 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, July 2015. Edith Hope Iselin (1905-2001) was the daughter of Charles Oliver Iselin of New York, a well-known millionaire banker, and his second wife Edith Hope Goddard. She was painted in László’s London studio over the course of several sittings in 1930. In 1932 the painting was exhibited at Knoedler New York, and featured on the front cover of The Art News. A film fragment exists of Edith Hope Iselin wearing the same dress. In 1936 she married Archer Gracchus Jones jr., and lived much of the rest of her life on her ranch in Tucson, Arizona.
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