Portrait of the Pianist and Composer Grace Castagnetta at the Piano medium I took inspiration from the

I took inspiration from the striped

that is more reminiscent of a moment caught by a snapped photograph than the hours of sitting she must have endured

it could easily have been painted in the early twentieth century

More of a transitional style

Portrait of the Pianist and Composer Grace Castagnetta at the Piano medium I took inspiration from theThis 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.