Signed mixed media on paper, including pencil, coloured pencil, oil pastel and watercolour wash.
A preliminary study for the 1990 acrylic painting of Amanda and Christopher Guest.

Having struck up a friendship in 1979 with Leonard Rosoman, during his time at the Hamptons, Myrna and John Guest commissioned the present work in 1989. Following a number of preliminary drawings, this is one of these drawings. Rosoman completed and presented the painting to Myrna and John in 1990, depicting their two children Amanda and Christopher. Tanya Harrod describes how Rosoman 'empathised with both young people, and arranged his painting almost as an Annunciation. Amanda, standing by a wall of her and Christopher's paintings, appears to beckon her brother towards a life in art' (T. Harrod, ibid., p. 199). The setting of the painting is a house in Chelsea, which John Guest (an architect) had designed; the spiral staircase in the centre of the work was a signature feature of many of his designs.