Anita Pallenberg

In the 1990s Anita took a fashion degree at Central Saint Martins, and took botanical drawing classes and life classes. She gave Marianne a number of drawings and watercolours over the years. This particular artwork hung in the spare room of Marianne’s former Paris apartment on Rue d’Anjou. It also can be seen in the sitting room of her later Montparnasse apartment in the book ‘The Maverick Soul, Inside the Lives & Homes of Eccentric, Eclectic & Free-spirited Bohemians’ by Miv Watts and Hugh Stewart.

Marianne's looks back on her friendship with Anita Pallenberg and the present painting:

"People think of Anita in one way – a 60s muse, all that shit – but she was so much more than that. She was a really talented artist, as well as being a great actor. She was intelligent, funny, thoughtful, fearless… she truly didn’t give a fuck what anybody thought of her. Anita started doing all the things she could have done after stopping the drugs. Many years later she did a fashion degree [at Central Saint Martins, in the early 1990s] and she started to paint again and she did life classes. She did some wonderful watercolours – she painted Shell Cottage when I was still living in Ireland. She taught me so much about clothes and how to dress, really it was she that was ‘the forerunner of all fashion."

Marianne has recounted to friends that while they were very different personalities, sharing the formative experience of the '60s with boyfriends Mick and Keith forged a close bond. Anita remained one of Marianne's closest friends for the rest of their lives, speaking most days until Anita got ill in 2017.