Milein Cosman
The dancers in this exhibition were drawn between 1946 and 1970. While best known for her portraiture, Cosman has always concentrated on character and movement in her work, and loves to capture her subjects in 'mid-flight'.
Milein Cosman's work is in several leading British collections, including the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A in London, the Ashmolean in Oxford, the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge, and the Hunterian in Glasgow; she is also represented in many public and private collections abroad. Permanent exhibitions of her drawings and prints of musicians can be seen at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
In the copy of Art and Illusion, he gave Cosman in 1962, Ernest Gombrich wrote an inscription that begins: “To Milein Cosman, master of the illusion of movement....'