Long scattered and almost forgotten, the vivid paintings of the novelist F Scott Fitzgerald's mentally disturbed wife Zelda are to be belatedly introduced to the world by her granddaughter.Macdonald, Marianne
Zelda Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948), known for her beauty and personality, made a name for herself as a socialite, novelist, dancer, and painter.She was far more than merely the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, who called her “the first American flapper.”Bo...
Infidelity was to characterise their marriage as much as alcohol abuse and it affected Zelda particularly badly. By 1930, her attempts to find a life for herself apart from one as Fitzgerald's wife led her to take up ballet, painting and writing. This last ambition seems to have finished th...