Isabel Nicholas

Bronze No.1 is in Walsall New Gallery together with her drawings and paintings of the Royal Ballet she made in 1960s
Bronze No.2 is in the Roy Noakes Collection

Isabel Nicholas 1912 –1992), also known at various times as Isabel Delmer, Isabel Lambert, and Isabel Rawsthorne was a British painter, scenery and costume designer, and occasional artists’ model. During the Second World War she worked in black propaganda as part of the special operations executive of the British Intelligence. She was part of an artistic bohemian society that included Jacob Epstein, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon.

Isabel Nicholas portrait