THE daughter of a dead city artist has appealed for information about an artwork by her mother.
Katherine Rolfe completed a 16ft pen and ink drawing of two Chinese dragons 40 years ago.
The Boars Hill artist, who died in 2000 aged 52 from lung cancer, spent nine months on the mammoth mural after being commissioned by a businessman called Percy Middleton.
Now her daughter Suzanne is trying to track down Mr Middleton and the mysterious drawing.
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The Brighton resident, 47, said: “One of the most amazing things she ever did was draw those two dragons. It’s her greatest piece of work.
“She drew them on our dining room table. She would be up at the crack of dawn to do them with a fine pen.”
Suzanne, a nurse and grandmother-of-one, said she remembered Mr Middleton: “He was a really old-fashioned millionaire. He would turn up at our house in in a Bentley.
“I can’t find a trace of him now. I know he lived in Middleton Stoney and that’s it. He must be out there somewhere.
“I would absolutely love to find them and know what happened to them.”
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