Art Auction - Arms Around the Child, Timed

Alexander Newley is a leading contemporary artist, writer and teacher known on both sides of the Atlantic for his iconic portrait paintings of major figures in the Arts including Gore Vidal, Billy Wilder,

Christopher Reeve, Oliver Stone and Steven Berkoff. His portrait of America’s infamous polemicist and wit, Vidal, and his dramatic triple-portrait of Actor, Activist and former star of Superman, Christopher Reeve, imprisoned in his life-supporting wheelchair, form part of the permanent collection of The National Portrait Gallery at The Smithsonian in Washington DC.  His full-length portrait of Sir Nigel Hawthorne in character as Mad King George III, was commissioned by the English National Theatre as the promotional image for their production of Alan Bennett’s play “The Madness of George III”, and his portrait of the writer, Dominick Dunne, passionately scribbling in his notebook during his coverage for Vanity Fair of the OJ Simpson trial, was chosen for the cover of Dunne’s best-selling memoir about the trial, “Another City, Not My Own,” and went onto achieve widespread exposure all over America.