André Leon Talley

André Leon Talley Instagram – Decemeber 25, 2020 at 7:01 a.m. I unveiled this amazing oil portrait, by my dear friend, Kimberly Cole Moore, before dawn. She took me in four different elements and forged a masterly memory from her mind’s eye.
With great brilliance, she evokes, André Leon Talley, who gave to all of you Chiffon Trenches, this year, a New York Times bestseller. She captured me in a sumptuousness, sheer sumptuosity !
She should paint and just paint. She merged many great moments in art history, into one great portrait, inspired by her own love of Velasquez , John Singer Sargent, Francis Bacon, Manet. What a gift to give the power of friendship through one’s own mind and
technical brilliance. She says I am her muse. Last year, she painted my beloved grandmother, Bennie Frances Davis, a simple domestic maid, all her life, who lived in the same humble house at 1007 Cornell Street, for over
50 years. She attended a Ralph Rucci show with me, who made this sumptuous white silk and black court coat, she followed me to the Oxford Union where I gave a talk (yes, the Oxford Union!) and came to Paris, to see my great exhibition
The Little Black Dress, at the Mona Bismark Foundation, which SCAD had mounted. I am seated there, in a throne like chair, inspired by Francis Bacon’s rare Black pope which I have seen on the walls of the Francois Catroux
decorated salons of Beatrice Santo Domingo Braga,in New York City. I feel that the spirit of Christmas is here, as this portrait and my
grandmother’s portrait, painted last year, by such a talented hand; an artist, who expresses true friendship by giving of her soul and time to create permanence , passionately, brilliantly, with masterful hands and skill. Her brush has captured the inner me, the quietude of my mind, and the somber gaze, the elegance of my hands.
Thank you Kim. And Merry Christmas and looking forward to all the bright sunny days of 2021. photograph by Kim Cole Moore #Vogue #TheChiffonTrenches #ScadFash #monabismarkfoundation #monoloblahnik
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