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Wright, David - elegant woman in armchair (1950s)

Artist: David Wright (All)

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Title:	Wright, David - elegant woman in armchair (1950s)
Artist:	David Wright (All)
Media Type:	Pastels
Art Type:	Prelim
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	122
Likes on CAF:	7 8
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	11/4/2025
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Here is a wonderful David Wright crayon drawing of an elegant woman dressed for an evening out, sitting in an armchair. The piece is not signed or dated...but this sure looks like Carol Day to me, which is why I'd place it as being created sometime in the 1950's.

The sheet size is 15 x 22 inches with an image area of 10 1/2 x 10 inches.

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Last Login:	January 2026
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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 11/4/2025

Classy beauty from a time when we idealized that high society people dressed up for the day even if they stayed indoors. She is nicely posed to stress the diagonal line on the right side. Relax and enjoy with a cup of tea.

Aaron N.
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 11/4/2025

wow! VERY Carol-y...

Ruben DaCollector
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 11/4/2025

Yes, perhaps a precursor to Carol Day, or maybe even a study of her as he attempted to decide how he wanted to position her in a given panel for a daily he may have been working on.

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 11/4/2025

Delightful! Lovely pose and nicely handled vignette

Yo Kuri
Member Since 2019

1 - Posted on 11/8/2025

Beautiful! Was Carol Day inspired by Grace Kelly?

Chris K.
Member Since 2008

Posted on 11/16/2025

Yo Kuri wrote:

Beautiful! Was Carol Day inspired by Grace Kelly?

It's hard to imagine she was not a visual influence; Carol Day starts in Sept 1956 and Grace Kelly was at the height of her critical acclaim and peak career films in the 1954-1955 tiime period (Dial M for Murder [1954], Rear Window [1954], The Country Girl [1954 - Oscar for Best Actress], and to Catch A Thief [1955] were all released in this window). Interestingly, well after the strip ended, a 21-year-old London woman named Moira Stone, a British Rail employee, was highlighted in the August 21, 1970 Daily Mail as being an absolute Carol Day lookalike as considered by Londeners. The article that day was entitled, 'The Girl They All Call Carol Day'.

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