Claude Marks (NY, UK 1915 - 1991) Portrait of a Woman. Titled lower left. Ink/Paper. Signed and dated (1974) lower right. Sight Size: 18.75 x 14.25 in. Overall Size: 26.25 x 21.5 inches. As a painter, Mr. Marks specialized in theatrical portraits. He counted among his subjects Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Alec Guinness, Lord Olivier, Joel Gray, Marlene Dietrich, Julie Harris and Glenda Jackson, often catching them in performance or offstage. His theater paintings and drawings are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York and the New York Public Library.