James Lloyd sold We will never know whether

We will never know whether this was a friend

A real creative force

A proponent both as a critic and painter of the American realist school he must have enjoyed the irony of winning second prize to Picasso’s first at the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930

while simultaneously the towns and countryside races past

an anonymous 1950s beauty with no past

James Lloyd sold We will never know whether"The first piece I saw by James was his portrait of Paul Smith in the National Portrait Gallery. It is a masterpiece. I particularly admire his attention to composition and the under standing of where the viewers eye needs to be led."