Tooele Times | 1911-02-04 | Page 6 | Painted While Asleep

painted while asleep it Is the craze ot of the pretty ladles of the plutocrat society to be painted while asleep writes a berlin correspondent the austrian countess czovek started the bright idea the well known portrait portraitist who had given her an aji appointment tor for the sitting has the vicious habit of making you wait tired of turning over french novels in tin an antechamber the beautiful countess coun tesa fell asleep at last the procrastinating artist turned up entranced by the unexpected vision of sleeping beauty he threw off it a lightning sketch and as the countess awoke held it before her astonished eyes the drawing was so dainty and seductive reductive that the delighted sitter insisted upon a complete oil portrait painted while she simulated sleep