He is best known for his portrait work, though he dabbled in other subjects and media. Some of his more sketchily-made portraits and studies contain loose, nearly abstract areas, but facial features were strongly naturalistic.
Examples of his portraits are shown below.
Probably a study that focuses on the subject's face, leaving the rest loosely indicated.
A similar exercise, but mostly painted (might her head be a drawing?).
Many Annigoni portraits were painted on wood panels. But this Time Magazine cover portrait is watercolor on paper.
Annigoni exaggerated some of her features.
Yet she seemed pleased enough to pose for this photo with the painting.
One of the famous Mitford sisters.
She was about 34 years old at the time, but he seems to have slightly flattered her, unlike the Margaret Rawlings portrait above.
Cool, yet with drama.
I discovered Annigoni way back when I was a student in Rome, when I found an old book of his drawings in a used bookstore. A terrific draftsman. The portrait of Kennedy is inexplicably terrible.
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