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Brush with genius: the hidden talent of Orson Welles

Written By Unknown on Saturday, February 9, 2019 | 9:03 AM

New book about cinema great reveals the sketches behind some of his most ambitious works

Orson Welles’s formidable talents as an actor, director, producer and writer are well known through classic movies such as Citizen Kane and The Third Man. But more than three decades after his death, Welles’s flair for draughtsmanship is now increasingly being recognised.

Sketches of film and stage productions are among hundreds of drawings reproduced in a forthcoming book, which follows a documentary about his art and an exhibition in Edinburgh last summer.

Related: Lights, canvas, action: paintings and drawings by Orson Welles

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