Holly Golightly original watercolour selling

Original watercolour portrait of Holly Golightly.

The painting measures 21x29 cm or 8x11 inch and is NOT framed. It will be sent in a protective plastic sleeve with a sturdy carboard.

Painted on Winsor and Newton cold pressed 300 g watercolour paper.

The price includes shipping per UPS, tracking number will be provided.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella by Truman Capote published in 1958. In it, a contemporary writer recalls his early days in New York City, when he makes the acquaintance of his remarkable neighbour, Holly Golightly, who is one of Capote's best-known creations.
The narrator moves into a brownstone apartment building in the city in order pursue his career as a writer. Shortly after moving into the apartment, he meets Holiday Golightly (she goes by Holly for most of the novel) .
Holly is a girl who is trying to find her place in the world, maybe at Tiffany's, where she feels safe. In the meantime, however, she is in the habit of entertaining lots of different men at loud parties in her apartment.
One of the ways Holly earns money is by visiting alleged mobster Sally Tomato in prison every week. The visits seem innocent enough, and Holly gets paid to send weather reports back to Sally's. But we soon learn that these weather reports aren't as innocent as they seem.

Between Holly and the narrator a strange friendship develops. He admires Holly but the girl is quite elusive about her past, speaking only of her brother Fred who is in the Army. One day, the narrator meets Doc and discovers that this man is Holly's husband. Doc tells the narrator that Holly's real name is Lula Mae and that she married him in Texas when she was fourteen years old. Holly gently tells her husband, Doc Golightly, that she can't be with him anymore, and sends him on his way.
Soon after, Holly receives a telegram from Doc informing her that her beloved brother Fred has been killed in the war. She loses control, smashing everything in her apartment. After this episode, Holly settles down and plans to marry Jose, a Brazilian politician of her acquaintance. Holly gets pregnant from José and the man decides to take her to Brazil and marry her.
When everything is planned some officers arrest Holly on charges of conspiracy with Sally Tomato and O'Shaughnessy. The arrest is publicized in all the major papers, and Holly's society friends are largely unwilling to help her. The narrator visits Holly in the hospital, where she is recovering from a miscarriage induced by her vigorous horseback riding on the day of the arrest. He brings her a letter from Jose, in which he notifies her that, because of his political reputation, he is unwilling to continue their relationship.
An upset Holly confides to the narrator that she is nonetheless planning on skipping out on bail and selling escaping to Brazil. She asks the narrator to aid her in the escape.
That Saturday, the narrator collects a few of Holly's belongings, including her cat accompanies Holly on the drive by taxi. She asks the driver to stop in Spanish Harlem, where she leaves her cat on the street. The narrator chastises Holly, who is soon overcome with grief and jumps out of the taxi to search for the cat, who is nowhere to be found. The narrator promises Holly he will return to the neighborhood to search for her cat, and Holly leaves. While the authorities soon trace Holly's flight to Rio, Sally Tomato's death in Sing Sing makes her indictment unnecessary. Aside from a single postcard from Buenos Aires, the narrator never hears from Holly again. However, keeping his promise, he finds Holly's cat, now safely at home in a Spanish Harlem apartment.


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